Abstract:
Eco travel and eco lodging are growing in popularity among travelers today, with this
comes an opportunity for architects to design and build sustainable projects for the people
that visit these often times fragile environments. People can fall in love with an areas natural
beauty only to see the areas beauty taken away from through poor development. This thesis
will look at maintaining and even enhancing a coastal area in a foreign country. Designing
and building in a foreign country poses several challenges from language, to zoning and
administrative procedures, etc., yet at the same time provides a bevy of unique opportunities
from materials that are distinctive to a particular area of the world, local construction
techniques, available land, etc. This thesis will endeavor to comprehend how to utilize solar
and wind to design an ecologically sustainable kiteboarding resort on the coast in Brazil for the
purpose of relaxing and enjoying life. The design will make every effort to utilize techniques
that foster harmony with the land as well as the local economy. Brazil is not an easy place for
a foreigner with no experience to set up a business, so effort will be made to try to find and
examine potential land mines along the road to setting up a successful business that would be
able to: design, purchase land, develop upon the land, effectively work with a crew to construct
the project, sell/market, then finally have a stake in the management of the resort.
