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The Eco Villa
The Eco Villa at Soneva Kiri is a world benchmark zero carbon emissions hotel suite. It showcases a range
of environmental technologies incorporated into a bio-climatically designed luxury pool villa. Built from
locally sourced materials by craftsmen such as mud brick experts, terracotta potters, master carpenters
and stonemasons, the construction, landscaping and operation are based on permaculture design principals
to ensure that waste is minimized or reused. The building’s excellent insulating properties are provided by
recycled cellulose together with an external green roof covering, which helps control water runoff whilst
also providing an excellent habitat for native flora and fauna. A central skylight gives light during the day
and stargazing access at night. Cooling is augmented by a passive system incorporated into the thermal
mass of the building. The natural swimming pool acts as a rainwater storage system, a wildlife magnet and
a swimming pond. A reed bed receives all waste water and effluence, and when treated, the water is reused
for landscape irrigation to build the bamboo privacy hedges with nutrient rich water, thereby providing food
such as bamboo shoots plus rapidly renewable construction timber.