This project investigates how engagements with landscapes can retain distinctive qualities and characteristic spirits of place. It explores how architecture embodies localized ideas of identity, place and experience. The project explores the layered memory of its setting Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe) to address the profound loss of its fundamental qualities and experiential depth as human activities increasingly encroach its sensitive natural and cultural attributes. The project experientially reinforces intangible attributes of this context making architecture a tool for sensitive and rehabilitative ecological and cultural experiences. The project also looks at how colonial establishments disrupted indigenous cultural narratives and attempts to re-contextualize the setting back into its original cultural framework, addressing erasure of local histories and facilitating the reconciliation of place with pre-colonial identities, practices and spatial experiences. Finally, the project reiterates architecture’s potential to complement natural environments by fostering reciprocal relationships between buildings and surrounding landscapes.