Eco-Resort Near Hyderabad Built From Earth, Stone and Sprayed Concrete
A new eco-resort called Gamaya Farms has opened its design to the public, and it is built largely from local earth and stone. The project sits in the town of Vikarabad, about 90 kilometres from the city of Hyderabad in southern India. Dezeen reported the design on 26 October 2026.
The architecture studio behind it is Biome Environmental Solutions, an office based in India. The site's buildings cover a total of 854 square metres, which is the combined floor area of all the structures. Guests stay in individual guesthouses and farm plots arranged around a shared amenities block at the centre of the property.
That central block is a curved, single-storey pavilion. It holds the main entrance, reception, a multi-purpose hall, a dining room, utility areas and bathrooms. Its roof is made of shotcrete, a concrete sprayed onto a wire mesh frame, laid over chicken mesh and weld mesh. The builders then topped it with unworked local rubble, which means stones used as they were found, without cutting or shaping.
Four guesthouses are partly sunk into a slope in front of the pavilion, so they sit into the ground rather than rising above it. Their walls are made of compressed earth bricks, which are blocks of soil pressed into shape rather than fired in a kiln.
Two cylindrical Forest Pavilions stand on concrete stilts near the wooded edges of the site. Visitors reach them by yellow-painted steel spiral staircases. The main roof is shaped like a hill and covered in local stone, so the building blends into the land around it.
ArchDaily, which lists architecture offices and their projects, describes Biome Environmental Solutions as an office focused on residential architecture. ArchDaily carries the studio's profile.
For anyone planning a stay, the resort is a short drive from Hyderabad, a city of several million people and one of India's largest tech and business hubs. The mix of guesthouses, farm plots and wooded pavilions gives the site a spread-out feel, with a single shared centre where guests gather to eat and meet.
