No man is an island entire of itself. How to build a space where hospitality provides romance and deep contact with nature but still boosts social encounters" How to lead people to really share with one another this extreme experience of one of the most remote places on the planet”Maldives”"
© Georg Roske
People naturally seek the complicity of others when going thru extraordinary days. Everyone on Maldives island is connected by a common search and dedication to achieve one of the biggest archetypes in literature: the island. The ultimate metaphor for isolation allows people to do things they would not normally do. Without the pressures of society, we go back to the basics of humanity; we?re linked to each other.
© Georg Roske The hotel in the Maldives will provide a welcoming space for people to live light, unleash creativity, amplify natural feelings in a dreamy state. For the past years, the studio mk27 team has had the privilege to imagine a shelter for a radical living experience, a temporary home in the exuberant infinite blues, wildlife, and open skies.
© Georg Roske
The volumetric answers are extremely delicate, respectful to its surroundings, trying to provide shadows and coziness, to capture and amplify the landscape strength. The architectural lines never break the horizon, they speak low and elegantly. All buildings are visually permeable, melted, dematerialized, putting life and men in the center of the experience.
The island?s shape f...