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Featured Designs

Khwai
Lediba

This luxury tented lodge is situated along the Khwai River on the border with the Moremi Game Reserve.

Wooden structures and a new distinctive design for the customized canvas tents. The shape of the rooms wants to resemble lanterns in the enchanted African forest

Semowi
Farm

A beautiful agro-tourism development on the banks of the Gomoti River. The development is composed of a farmhouse, camp sites and 4 tented chalets.

The high pitched roof and constant cross ventilation, in the house ensure a cool climate during the hot summers

The Cloister
House

A private house with an Italian taste. The client has expressed the love for ancient Italian Cloisters and this is where the inspiration came from.

A main salon with a high wooden roof and arched verandas make this house unique in the city landscape.

Archidea

Glamping and lodge design in remote areas

We specialize in canvas design and temporary buildings

Sustainable & BioArchitecture solutions

We have experience designing in remote and dry areas where is important to use the power of nature

Render views and projects visualization

We pay attention to presentation and visualization of our projects

Landscaping
Design

We are passionate about landscaping design

Surveys of
existing buildings

We are equipped to make any kind of survey of existing structures

Technical Drawings
CAD

We can use many different programs for technical drawings

Residential, Hospitality & Commercial buildings design

We have experience in this kind of design and feel strongly about it

Submissions with
Authorities

We are registered Architects in Botswana, Italy and Switzerland

Khwai Lediba

Client: African Bush Camps

Location: Khwai – Botswana

This luxury tented lodge is situated along the Khwai River on the border with the Moremi Game Reserve. Wooden structures and a new distinctive design for the customized canvas tents. The shape of the rooms wants to resemble lanterns in the enchanted African forest. This is a collaboration with Akanya Design  

Semowi Farm

Client: Private

Location: Shorobe – Botswana

A beautiful agro-tourism development on the bank of the Gomoti River. The development is composed by a farmhouse, camp sites and 4 tented chalets.

For the house the hight pitched roof and constant cross ventilation insure a good climate during the hot summers without the use of Air conditioning

The Cloister House

Client: Private

Location: Gaborone – Botswana

A private house with an Italian taste. The client has expressed the love for ancient Italian Cloisters and this is where the inspiration came from. A main salon with a high wooden roof and arched verandas make this house unique in the city landscape.

Quality Basket Botswana

Client: Private

Location: Maun – Botswana

This is a renovation of an existing small building and an Interior Design interevent hosting the new Quality Basket shop owned by the talented Mma Kushonya.

Apartment Renovation

Client: Private

Location: Como Lake – Italy

Small apartment renovation in the heart of Cernobbio on the Como Lake bank. Inside an old building of apartments we have thought of a cleaned, modern and lightful intervention, with a touch of green

O'Bona Moremi

Client: Private

Location: Khwai – Botswana

Renovation of an existing tented lodge in the African Bush by adding a wood and lattes superstructure as an aesthetic value and protection from the sun

Nhabe Museum

Client: Community

Location: Maun – Botswana

In the heart of Maun this is an extension of the existing Nhabe Museum with the request of adding 4 new craft shops and a commune deck/promenade. The choice is been to blend with the previously done development connecting with the modern language of wood and corrugated steel cabins

Omogolo Bush Lodge

Client: Private

Location: Tsau – Botswana

A private owned bush lodge in the open bush of Botswana where the elephants are the main attraction. Wooden structures with canvas walls and thatched roofs protect this development from the African sun without to renounce to the tent feeling. This is a collaboration with Amy Fletcher Design and Nature Zone

The Termite Mound

Client: Private

Location: Khwai – Botswana

A self-catering guest house on the Khwai river. The use of shipping containers and canvas has made this building secure and easy to build.

The communal area is an inclusive space that is open to the river but cozy and secure at the same time.

Botswana Wild Bird Trust Headquarters

Client: Private

Location: Maun – Botswana

This is a design for the new headquarters and research hub for Botswana Wild Bird Trust. The use of decks and prefab material have made the construction site very low impact on the ground and during construction site. Minimizing the use of concrete and permanent structures.

Atzaro Okavango Camp

Client: Okavango Delta Expeditions

Location: NG32 – Botswana

This luxury lodge is situated in the beaty of the Okavango Delta.

A mixture of wood canvas and thatch makes this lodge unique. This camp is a collaboration with Atzaro design

Khwai Lediba

Client: African Bush Camps

Location: Khwai – Botswana

This luxury tented lodge is situated along the Khwai River on the border with the Moremi Game Reserve. Wooden structures and a new distinctive design for the customized canvas tents. The shape of the rooms wants to resemble lanterns in the enchanted African forest. This is a collaboration with Akanya Design