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An Italian design firm has unveiled its plan to build the Baobab Luxury Safari Resort in Africa.

Mask Architects is the brain behind the optimistic proposition, which will help you live out your treehouse fantasies while also doing something good for the environment.

Robb Report notes that the resort plan is centred on airy, design-savvy, eco-conscious treehouse lodges set amid the lush South African forest, although Mask Architects merely mentions the whole continent of Africa as being the potential foundation.

I mean, the Knysna forests or somewhere in the Drakensberg seem like fitting locations – minus the abundance of giraffes, though, unless they get shipped in especially.

 

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The very special thing about these treehouses is that they will be designed to autonomously produce their own green energy and water for your stay.

As part of the firm’s goal to enhance the infrastructure, agriculture, and manufacturing on the African continent, the treehouses will also be able to distribute water to the local communities nearby.

Inspired by the prehistoric Baobab tree, the cone-shaped lodges appear to be floating mid-air, raised just 3.5 meters (about 11 and half feet) above ground. The condensation area, or base of the shelters, is where you’ll enter the space.

Taking a curved staircase one floor up, you’ll enter a living area anchored in natural beachwood furnishings and surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows that drench the space in sunlight. The primary bedroom and a balcony are on this level as well, offering lush landscape views. Two levels up, you’ll find a sundeck surrounded by your own private panoramic pool.

 

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Mask Architects’ “air to water technology” system will be fitted on each treehouse, powered by a transparent solar device that can produce water by extracting moisture from humid air:

This is facilitated by air filters that are built into wood-covered aluminum lattice poles that surround the treehouse facades. Air and humidity passing through these filters is then condensed and processed through an additional multi-step filtration system in a room below ground.

When enough purified water has pooled, it will be delivered to local communities via a distribution network, according to Mask Architects:

“With this project, our goal is to make the most basic need of water accessible rather than a luxury experience, and to prevent hunger, thirst and the diseases and deaths its causes,” the firm writes its website. That’s a goal everyone can get behind.

Idealistic or realistic?

 

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Something about the sparkles and abundance of Safari animals tells me it’s more a dreamy design project than a realistic and implementable plan.

[source:robbreport]