Strawberry Hill Resort

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Strawberry Hill Resort

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2009

This new community of thirty-five sustainable homes is to be located in the Blue Mountains overlooking Kingston, Jamaica. Designed for Jamaican entrepreneur Chris Blackwell and his company, Island Outpost, this project is an expansion of his exclusive mountain retreat Strawberry Hill.The project is designed as a contemporary hill town and is intended to be a model of ecological and economic sustainability. The 3.5-acre buildable area of the site will be home to a cluster of small, carefully-sited apartments, each responding to the special conditions of light, air, topography and vegetation found on the hilltop site.Visitors will leave their cars and approach the hill long a lush landscaped drive and enter the tightly-packed enclave of houses. A generous central courtyard welcomes visitors and opens to unparalleled views of Kingston, the Blue Mountains and Caribbean beyond. This new community offers residents the unique opportunity to live a low-impact, sustainable urban lifestyle tucked into the jungle, high above the city.