Amilla Fushi
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Amilla Fushi is a luxury Maldivian Resort located in the Unesco-protected biosphere reserve of Baa Atoll. The project was commissioned by the Coastline Group & Liquidity, with architecture by Akin Atelier. Amilla Fushi opened in December 2014.
Size: 3,900m2
Budget: N/A
Scope: Masterplan, Concept Design
1. Aerial view (above left)
2. Private Beach villa (below left)
3. Treetop and reef villas (right)
The natural island landscape is preserved and celebrated
Treetop villa secluded among the canopy
If you’re going to play ‘Indian Ocean castaway’, this is the place to do it.
- Condé Nast Traveler
Reef villas
Beach villa concept plan
Beach house concept plan
Reef villa concept
Beach house concept
Treetop villa concept
Treetop villas with elevated swimming pools
With amazing Beverly Hills-like villas, this is a deeply ambitious hotel full of big-hitters.
- Condé Nast Traveler
1. The villa gardens and pools are a natural extension of the beach frontage (above left)
2. Guests experience a sense of connectedness as well as intimacy and privacy (below left)
3. Amilla Fushi’s casual beauty is preserved and celebrated (above)
Reef Villas
1. Swim on the reef or in the privacy of the Beach villa pool (above left)
2. The villas are intrinsically connected to their gardens and the natural island landscape (below left)
3. Floating amongst the palm canopy in the Treetop villa pool (right)
Design Statement
Less-than-one-kilometre-long, Amilla Fushi rises on the edge of the Baa Atoll, home to some of the richest waters in the Maldives and a biosphere reserve protected as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011.
60 Beach, Tree, and Ocean homes, and 8 oversized Residences occupy Amilla Fushi. The concept was built around a new bareluxury for the area, to move away from the thatched & pitched vernacular typically associated with the Maldives, and look to traditional Maldivian coral-stone buildings - geometrically square, flat roofed and minimal. This new luxury is about space and light, an interesting relationship with the landscape, and a connection to the land.
- Akin Atelier
