Le Chaland is a 95-acre resort village located on a spectacular beachfront in southeast Mauritius. Immediately adjacent to the beach are two luxury hotels and a beach club, which front a promenade that extends across an existing almond allée to a public plaza. As the center of the village, the plaza is lined with three-story mixed-use buildings and a third hotel. The village consists of an intricate network of varied blocks and streets interspersed with a variety of public greens.

Housing types range from fee-simple townhouses and cottages to multi-family courtyards and compounds, with large estate homes at the edges. All structures are carefully designed in response to local climate and social customs: houses feature single-room deep bodies to ensure ample cross-ventilation while privacy walls are integrated into all dwellings, lots and street form.