The Manser Practice were appointed to design a social enterprise hotel on a beach site in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Our design is composed of a series of accommodation blocks wrapped in an environmental screen of louvres that would help reduce solar gain and allow the building to be naturally ventilated.
The hotel was to feature a bar and museum based on the local ‘Krio Houses’, a low-tech example of Creole architecture in West Africa that is sadly disappearing.
