Take a deep breath and open your eyes. The sun is rising up and bringing tender light through the garden of your bedroom. The Island is waking up to another sunny day and it makes you want to explore all five senses in celebration of life. Specific fragrances produced by indigenous trees and flowers cheers you up as you walk the island. Wide walkways guide you around a unique hotel resort with wild landscape designs created as a masterpiece of contemporary architecture and naturalistic landscape design. Developed from scratch and true to the Maldivian lifestyle, it welcomes you each step to taste and live VELAA PRIVATE lifestyle in all its natural beauty.
The landscape design of all exteriors takes on a naturalistic look and is structured as a typical Maldivian island with a broad palette of colors. Huge indigenous Banyan trees and original Pandanus jungle areas on the north-west side of island combined with palm trees, various ornamental trees, and the protective coastal vegetation creates a fragile, but balanced ecosystem.
The master Architectural concept of luxury beach villas with interior gardens, private beach gardens and coastal landscape consisting from the indigenous vegetation gives you the unique feeling of being in a tropical wild jungle – a place where you can experience whatever you can imagine.
All the palms, trees, shrubs, and flowers represent a broad collection of plant material which has been collected across the Maldivian islands, by the Maldivian people, bought for or donated to our island.
Each space in the island landscape has a long story behind it. A number of palm trees were saved from islands where land was cleared due to construction, such as the waste factory or island airport development project. Thousands of plants were raised in island nurseries and thousand arrived by local Dhoni boats from the northern islands.
The first boat with 10 gardeners landed on the beach of Fushivelaavaru island in the beginning of 2012. Thus, began the careful clearance of 20 hectares of island for construction.
At the same time, the shaping of pathways began, exploring the island biodiversity and the marking of protected trees and locations with origin flora and fauna.
More than 1,600 palm trees, 600 ornamental trees, 20,000 costal protection shrubs, and hundreds of thousands of flowers were transported and planted in the island interior. The oversized Banyan trees were successfully transplanted from the newly constructed runway of Ifuru airport to our island. Hundreds of shrubs and trees were moved across the island for a better growing environment as well. More than 160 new plant species were also introduced to the island.
All soils and bulk excavations from construction were sorted, balanced, and returned to terrain modulations, pathways, roads or as substrates enriched with recycled bio waste produced on our island.
During the peak of the project, 150 workers and gardeners developed the island landscape, beaches, gardens, golf course, roads, pathways and plant nurseries. In that time, the Fushivelaavaru project increased the horticulture production in northern region in exchange for knowledge and business opportunity for islanders.
Such a spectacular private hotel with an extraordinary island landscape would never have been realized without the deep trust, respect, and love towards the Maldivian people, lifestyle, and environment.
This project would also not have been successful if not for the efforts of Radka and Jiri Smejc and the investor team, who contributed their valuable experience, dreams, and visions for creating such an amazing environment.
Making of Velaa private island Maldives
