The moulds came from the rock of the cut itself, and the new hillside repeats the geology that was already there.
The slope gave way. Western
gave the place back its geology.
gave the place back its geology.
All Resort Club Residence
A fifteen-metre slope collapsed beside the Signature Hole at Porto Belo Golf Club. Instead of shoring it up and hiding it, Western rebuilt the hillside from moulds taken from the rock itself and let the water run down it.
Design: Mandaia Arquitetura
01
Photography: Hefestos Films
02
15
m
of slope rebuilt with moulds of the rock itself
500
m²
of waterfall and hillside rebuilt
3
months
from geological risk to the most photographed spot on the course
“The best project we deliver is the one that doesn't look like a project. It's the one that feels like it was always there.”
— Ricardo Botelho, creative director
Slope stabilisation, landscape and golf course went into the same project.
With the waterfall, the slope repair became landscape.
Shall we make
it real?
Western comes in from the first sketch: modelling, engineering and execution in our own atelier.