Guludo Eco-resort

Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

“Simple beauty: the eco-bandas at Guludo have everything you need and nothing you don’t.”

"Simple beauty: the eco-bandas at Guludo have everything you need and nothing you don’t."

Lisa Johnson
London Evening Standard

The project aims to bring together high class tourist facilities and ecological concerns within a development agenda. The resort is designed to minimise the negative impact of tourism on the environment and to maximise benefit to the local community.

Skills and materials (mud, bamboo, woven cane, palm thatch) are largely locally sourced with some use of recycled elements (nylon thread from car tyres and old oil drums). Composting toilets help minimise water consumption and solar power provides water heating and electricity generation.

The project has won many awards, including: 

Conde Nast Traveller “Best Small Hotel”, 2012
Tourism Tomorrow Community Benefit Award, 2011
Sunday Times - “100 Best Hotels in the World”

“…the buildings have a scale, dignity and materiality appropriate to their setting. If only everything built ... could be so physically and culturally tactful.”

"…the buildings have a scale, dignity and materiality appropriate to their setting. If only everything built ... could be so physically and culturally tactful."

Catherine Slessor
The Architectural Review