Location Damaraland, Kunene Region

Project Status Completed 2011

Client Ministry of Environment and Tourism & Sorris-Sorris Conservancy

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Tourist information centre for Sorris-Sorris Conservancy  at their office to generate modest income and provide platform where visitors can interact with local people. Concept of building as threshold/ gateway between community and visitor, designed so that the boundary between the two is blurred. Not only place for visitors to relax and obtain information on people and environment of Sorris-Sorris, but also place where community can interact and hold other communal meetings. Robust materials to ensure minimal maintenance. Outer edge of complex addresses natural surroundings with monolithic gabion walls as reference to nature. Inner edge of steel and local Uis bricks addresses immediate context of conservancy office and becomes a reference  point to the people of the area.