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Arrival
Earth-toned volumes, a clay screen and the hotel’s name on the wall.
Architecture, Hotels & Resorts
290 | Villa Yakro Hotel
Location
Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
Type
Boutique Hotel
Area
18,000 m²
Landscape
Status
Ongoing
Recognition
Winner · 2025
Architecture – Hospitality
DNA Paris Design Awards
The idea
Earth walls around a garden of water.
Villa Yakro is an 18,000 m² boutique hotel in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, planned as a low village of earth-toned volumes around a long central pool. Thick rendered walls, deep overhangs and timber louvres keep the rooms shaded; perforated clay screens filter light into the stairs and terraces and carry the hotel’s name at the entrance.
Each guest room opens onto the water, with its own terrace and planting. Shared life gathers at the edges of the pool: a cascade wall, sunken lounges, a shaded bar under a timber pergola and covered decks with woven pendants.
Material palette
Clay render
Walls and volumes
Clay screen
Perforated facades
Timber deck
Terraces
Cascade
Pool wall
About the project
Clay walls, timber decks and falling water.
Guests arrive at the clay screen with the name of the hotel on it, the earth-coloured buildings gathered behind. From there the path leads into the pool court, where the rooms line the water and every room has a terrace of its own. At the edges of the court sit the lounges and bar: covered decks, sunken seating, a bar in the shade of the pergola. From the air, the pool runs down the middle of the plan, with planting around it.
Clay render covers the walls and volumes, a matt, earth-coloured finish. The same clay is perforated into screens on the facades, so stairs and terraces receive filtered light. Timber decks floor the terraces, warm underfoot beside the pool. The cascade turns one edge of the pool into falling water. Over the decks, woven pendants and the pergola add softer materials, while timber louvres shade the rooms in this Yamoussoukro hotel.
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