{"id":33665,"date":"2011-04-03T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/island-treetop-villas\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:44:42","slug":"island-treetop-villas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/island-treetop-villas.php","title":{"rendered":"Island Treetop Villas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3219\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2011\/04\/01\/island-treetop-villas\/mandarin-oriental-turks-and-caicos\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3219\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c260_mandarin-oriental-turks-and-caicos-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"mandarin-oriental-turks-and-caicos\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Many island owners are looking at ways to make their islands more sustainable and environmentally friendly. One way island owners achieve this is through the integration of their architecture into the natural landscape.<\/p><p>Mandarin Oriental has taken this approach to the next level on their new island resort in the Turks and Caicos. The 8&nbsp;villas in the the on the island pay homage to the hyper sensitivity of the location&rsquo;s unique natural setting. Situated on Dellis Cay, the villas are designed to integrate nature as a major component of their material palette. The architecture was kept as simple as possible, ensuring that residents are able to fully take in the changing sky and surrounding vegetation.<\/p><p>All&nbsp;villas are precisely oriented to make the most of their vaulted position above the treetops, and each individual project has been carefully planned to maximize performative and experiential qualities. Each villa channels prevailing winds to cool the interior spaces while framing sunrises, sunsets, and the path of the moon from one side of the structure to the other. Given the limited number of resources on the island, a mixture of passive and active green building strategies were implemented throughout the projects including large overhangs, cross-ventilation, the use of recycled materials, solar hot water heaters, insulating green roofs, and rooftop infinity pools that also serve as a rainwater collection tanks.<\/p><p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/mandarin-oriental-treetop-villas-are-luxurious-sustainable-island-hideouts\/\">Inhabitat<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many island owners are looking at ways to make their islands more sustainable and environmentally friendly. One way island owners achieve this is through the integration of their architecture into the natural landscape.Mandarin Oriental has taken this approach to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/island-treetop-villas.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}