Wildlife Tourism
Architectural and spatial design for wildlife tourism facilities that balance visitor experience with environmental conservation.
Héctor Ayarza and Estudio Garúa Lift a Training Center into Panama's Rainforest Canopy
A 135-square-meter pavilion in Gamboa floats above the jungle floor on concrete piers, learning from the forest rather than competing with it.
Eco-Luxury Safari Lodge: Madwaleni River Lodge by Luxury Frontiers
An immersive eco-luxury safari lodge in South Africa unites Zulu heritage, sustainable design, and rewilded landscapes at Babanango Reserve.
BirdWalk: A Circular Canopy Ramp Reframes Tourism in Kakadu National Park
Guadalupe Linares designs a tourism village where a spiraling timber walkway through bird habitats becomes the engine of cultural storytelling.
Exploring the Splendor of Nature: The Wetland Loop Trails
Discover the rejuvenating power of nature through the Wetland Loop Trails, a project blending outdoor recreation with accessibility and technology to reconnect people with the environment.
Thesis Idea.
Community-Based Eco-Tourism At Madhupur Sal Forest: An opportunity for integrated development for Garo people
THE SPRUCE Eco-lodge
This project explores alternatives to traditional tourism development with an off-grid immersive experiential escape. The proposed year-round ecolodge offers a diverse set of accommodations catering to a variety of guests and experiences while introducing the visitors to the net-zero lifestyle. Inspired by Nature’s ecosystems functions and evolutionary structure, this ecolodge rests harmoniously in its natural setting, preserving its ecological landscape processes. The conceptual ideas presented for this ecolodge acts as a prototype for sustainable living which can be applied at a variety of scales and geographic locations.
Immersive Migration
This project aims to stage a poetic meeting of the animals and visitors of the Serengeti and on the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater. The design proposal focuses on curating this long-existing interaction between these two “users” through the lens of curiosity.
Tourism Village of the Human Evolution
Joining the gap between Humans and Nature
