Brazil-based Studio MK27 has used wood, rattan and stone textures to create the buildings for a holiday resort on the Fari Islands archipelago in the Maldives.
Patina Maldives occupies one of the four islands that makes up the artificial archipelago, which was built over approximately 10 kilometres of reef on the northern edge of North Male Atoll.
Patina Maldives is located within the new Fari Islands archipelago
Studio MK27 has designed architecture and interiors for buildings across the island, including an arrival pavilion, a spa, a kid's club, and a cluster of bars and restaurants.
Accommodation is provided by a mix of beach suites, private in-land villas and water villas that project out to sea.
Studio MK27 designed architecture and interiors for the resort's various buildings Never rising above the tree canopy, the buildings are dotted around the island in an arrangement designed to create areas of vibrant social activity and spaces of complete seclusion.
"Patina is unique in the Maldives: an opportunity to be together in isolation," said Studio MK27 founder Marcio Kogan. "[It is] one of the most remote places on Earth and still a place designed for people to meet one another."
Natural materials are combined with earthy colours
"Patina Maldives embraces our natural conflicts: desire for peace and party, for nature and design, technology and rusticity, self-indulgence and deep reflections," he added.
The materials palette throughout cons...