Eco-Village: Visualizing Self-Sufficient Community Living

Our visualizations brought to life Croatia’s first fully autonomous eco-village, a 10-hectare permaculture community generating its own electricity, water, and food on Brač Island’s challenging terrain.

The challenge: communicate complex sustainability systems through imagery. Architect and permaculture designer Hrvoje Bota’s vision integrates five family agricultural holdings (OPG), communal facilities, olive groves, vineyards, orchards, and livestock, all designed for water independence, renewable energy, and biodiversity restoration on steep, erosion-prone land.

The design responds to climate change through holistic land management: perennial planting following natural contours (Keyline design), controlled grazing for soil regeneration, rainwater harvesting in underground tanks, biological water treatment with plant filters, and passive solar design using local materials, stone, wood, lime, hemp, and sheep’s wool.

Each OPG accommodates ten people with five-room houses in olive
groves, renovated stone huts, and glamping facilities. The community includes shared winery, bocce court, children’s play areas, and outdoor living spaces, all integrated into Dalmatian cultivated landscape with dry stone walls and fire corridors.

Project
Eco-Village Blaca, Island of Brač
Client: Private investors
Company: Održivo, Split

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