UXUA Casa Hotel & Spa in Trancoso, Brazil has unveiled its newest eco-conscious lodging: Casa Azul. This new casa comes on the heels of the property’s recent eco-centric developments, including the launch of the 50-acre UXUA Roça farm, the UXUA Maré nature sanctuary and the Vida Lab nutritional research laboratory.
A century-old farmhouse originally located in a small town in the neighboring state of Minas Gerais, about 460 miles from Trancoso, the antique casa was carefully dismantled with precise tagging, numbering and photography, then transported and remounted in the middle of UXUA Maré. The nature sanctuary is located on Itapororoca beach, a 45-minute walk from town, and spans 20 acres of mangrove forest, Atlantic rainforest, restinga (salt marsh) and aquatic reef.
UXUA’s team of local builders and craftsmen preserved the house’s original cedar and cinnamon floorboards, antique windows and doors, and large beams constructed with Brazil’s bráuna wood while configuring the structure to meet modern needs. The casa, which is fully solar powered, has its own groundwater well and it complete with a kitchen, living room, bathroom and a bedroom that opens to a deck and rainforest-facing swimming pool.
Surplus building materials, such as antique doors, were repurposed to construct cabinetry in the kitchen; new elements that were not recycled were painted bright white to highlight the minimal use of new elements. Abutting the casa is a nursery planted with fruits and vegetables that were believed to be extinct until biologists discovered these rare species in the forests of UXUA Roça. They’re now being revived in the nursery and will supply UXUA’s kitchen and nutritional research lab.
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