Sunyata生态酒店的设计和建造是为了展示在城市场景中，在一个最佳的场地大小上的建筑是如何成为一个可持续和生态友好的结构。这种方法不仅延伸到所选择的材料或施工技术，而且还延伸到整个施工过程和酒店开始运作后的日常运作。一家精品酒店的要求和功能，即美学、经验、舒适和豪华并存，被赋予了最大的重要性。项目简介是以完全生态友好的方式实现这些要求，并尽可能地减少碳足迹。
Sunyata eco hotel is designed and built to demonstrate how a building in an urban scenario on an optimal site size can be a sustainable and eco-friendly structure. This approach extends beyond just the materials chosen or construction techniques but also to the entire construction process and the day to day operations once the hotel started functioning. The requirements and functioning of a boutique hotel where aesthetics, experience, comfort and luxury go hand in hand were given utmost importance. The project brief was to achieve these in a completely eco friendly manner with the least amount of carbon footprint possible.
酒店主要是用当地的土建造的，这些土以不同的形式使用–泥块、浇筑的土、夯土和泥浆混凝土。自然采光、通风和热量是通过结合砖贾里斯和相互遮阳技术来调节的。该酒店主要被设计成承重结构，因此避免了混凝土柱。年代久远的替代性建筑技术，如砖拱顶、千斤顶、预制小时粘土屋顶和填充板，都被用来帮助减少混凝土。
The hotel is primarily built with locally available earth which is used in various forms – mud blocks, poured earth, rammed earth and mud concrete. Natural light, ventilation and heat is regulated by incorporating brick jaalis and mutual shading techniques. This hotel is largely designed as a load bearing structure and thus avoiding concrete columns. Age old alternative construction techniques like brick vaults, jack arch roofs, precast hourdi clay roofs and filler slabs have all been used to help reduce concrete.
该项目的布局受到了 “thotti mane “或庭院式房屋的启发，这是马尔纳德地区的本土建筑风格。该结构的设计考虑了生物气候学原理。这里有一系列后退的梯田，可以看到邻近的公园和远处的山丘。这些梯田也有助于在季节性季风期间最大限度地收集雨水，同时让宜人的北光进入房间。来自梯田的雨水被进一步输送到中央庭院，并储存在地基之间创建的大型雨水储存罐中。这些水箱可以储存多达45,000升的水，剩余的水被引导到开放的水井中补充。
The layout of the project is inspired by the ‘thotti mane’ or courtyard houses which is the vernacular style of construction in the malnad region. The structure is designed considering bioclimatic principles. There are a series of receding terraces looking out to the park adjacent to the site and the hills in a distance. These terraces also help in collecting maximum rain water during the seasonal monsoons while letting in the pleasant north light into the rooms. The rain water from the terraces is further routed to the central courtyard and stored in large rain water storage tanks created between the foundation. These tanks can store up to 45,000 litres of water and the remaining is directed to recharge the open well.
在院子里收集的水通过自然过滤器，多余的水被收集到一个水体中。为了收集水，开凿了一口30英尺深的井。突破了挖掘井的普遍做法，这口露天井不会对含水层产生任何负面影响，还能让地下水从侧面渗入。生态污水处理厂负责处理污水，这些污水也被回收再利用。独特的ECOSTP技术不使用化学品或能源来处理水。相反，它模仿自然界的过程，使用微生物、植物和砾石的组合来清洁污水，并将清洁的水送回地球母亲，完成了 “从摇篮到摇篮 “的可持续生命周期。
The water collected at the courtyard passes through natural filters and excess water is collected in a water body. A 30 feet deep well is excavated for the purpose of water collection. Breaking away from the common practice of excavating borewells, the open well does not have any negative impacts on the aquifers and also allows for the ground water to percolate from the sides. An eco STP takes care of sullage water which is also recycled for reuse. The unique ECOSTP technology does not use chemicals or energy to treat the water. Instead, it mimics the processes of the natural world using a combination of microorganisms, plants and gravel to clean sewage water and return clean water back to mother earth, completing the ‘cradle to cradle’ sustainable lifecycle.
被动冷却是通过结合太阳能烟囱（沿南墙和西墙）和连接到冷空气井的土质空气隧道来实现的，冷空气井开到每个房间，诱发被动通风，从而避免了所有空间的空调。三条长约75米的HDPE管道被放置在距离自然地面3.5米的地方。这些管道的起点和终点是地下室的空气处理装置。太阳能电池板用于生产电力，电池板是分阶段安装的。所有参与施工的设备，包括制砖，都由太阳能供电，以避免从电网取电。
Passive cooling is achieved by incorporating a combination of solar chimneys(along the south & west walls) and earth air tunnels connected to cool air shafts that open into each room inducing passive ventilation, thus avoiding air conditioning in all spaces. Three loops of HDPE pipes of approximately 75m length each are placed at -3.5m from natural ground level. These pipes start and end at the air handling units in the basement. Solar panels are used for producing electricity and the panels were installed in a phased manner. All the equipment involved in construction including brick making was powered by solar energy to avoid drawing electricity from the grid.
内部装修非常简约。结构中的每一种材料和元素都突出了其真实的一面。裸露的砖块、土墙和裸露的混凝土与对比强烈的黑石地板成为每个空间的特色。床、沙发、椅子和衣柜是用藤条定制的。一些旧的藤条和木制家具也被采购和重新利用。当地的石头工匠、甘蔗工匠、陶工和在非收获季节失业的种植园工人都得到了培训和雇用。今天，Sunyata生态酒店是一家正在运营的精品酒店，它能自给自足地产生运作所需的资源，同时也是一个在生态友好空间生活的体验中心。
The interiors are very minimal. Every material and element of the structure is highlighted in its true self. Exposed bricks, earthen walls and exposed concrete with contrasting black stone floor becomes the feature in each space. Beds, sofas, chairs and wardrobes are custom made in cane. Some of the old cane and wooden furniture were sourced and re-purposed too. Local stone artisans, cane craftsmen, potters and plantation workers who were unemployed during non-harvest months were trained and employed. Sunyata eco hotel is an operating boutique hotel today which is self sufficient in generating the resources it needs to function while also being an experience centre for living in an eco friendly space.
Architects: Design Kacheri
Area : 10000 ft²
Year : 2021
Photographs :Shamanth Patil
Manufacturers : Kohler, Exide, Pasolite, Studer, Trimble Sketchup, ZWsoft
Lead Architects : Chaitra Saraf, Nidhish Kurup
Contractor : Real Earth Engineers
Structural Engineers : Mrinmayee consultants
MEP Consultants : Capstone Building Services & Consultants
Design Team : Alex Paul, Niyati Thakur, Kishor KS
Sewage Treatment System : ECO STP
City : Chikmagalur
Country : India