El Bosque Nosara, a thoughtfully planned, 37-acre tree-filled sanctuary steps from Playa Guiones where you can live lightly in a walkable community designed by the founders of Harmony Hotel. You’ll explore 49 distinctive homesites, architectural guidelines and example homes that balance beauty, comfort and biodiversity, with a local team ready to guide your land purchase, design and construction. This overview gives you authoritative insight into living and investing in El Bosque.
Community Overview
El Bosque is a master-planned, 37-acre tree-filled neighborhood a short walk from Playa Guiones where you can live in the quiet beauty of the forest while enjoying nearby town conveniences. Homesites are available and a local team guides you through purchase and tours, ensuring the design and services align with your lifestyle and goals.
Vision and Values
El Bosque is built for people like you who value walkability, reduced car dependence, preserved wild space, and a creative, communal way of living. The plan prioritizes biodiversity, thoughtful siting, and social well-being so your home fosters play, inspiration, and connection with neighbors and the broader Nosara community.
Connection to Nature
You live among native trees and trails designed to keep the forest intact, with easy pedestrian access to beach and town. The neighborhood layout and architectural guidance help your home blend into the dry tropical forest so you wake up to bird song, evening stars, and daily opportunities to explore.
The master plan, informed by extensive site studies and Harmony Projects experience, positions 49 homesites to respect natural drainage, canopy, and wildlife corridors; architects demonstrated how structures can minimize impact while offering comfort. For you that means shaded paths, native landscaping, and building envelopes that conserve habitat and maintain the area’s wild character.
Approach to Development
At El Bosque your home is planned to honor the 37-acre forest sanctuary and the founders’ vision from Harmony Hotel: to build lightly, preserve biodiversity, and keep community life within walking reach of Playa Guiones. The development balances thoughtful site analysis, neighborhood-scale walkability, and design that fits the land so your daily life feels integrated with nature.
Commitment to Environmental Harmony
The project centers on environmental harmony so you live alongside thriving native habitat. Through careful protection of wild space, water-sensitive design, and biodiversity-friendly landscaping, your property supports local ecosystems while reducing reliance on cars and promoting healthy outdoor living for residents of all ages.
Master Planning Process
The master plan is built from deep site study and years of local experience, guiding placement of 49 homesites to follow natural contours and preserve key forest corridors. That process gives you a clear framework and design guidelines to create a home that respects the land while offering comfort and connectivity to the neighborhood.
Detailed soil, hydrology, and biodiversity studies inform each decision so your home avoids sensitive areas and benefits from natural drainage and shade. Early collaborations with prominent architects produced model homes to illustrate materials, orientation, and minimal-impact construction, and your design process is supported by local experts to ensure compliance with the community’s ecological and aesthetic standards.
Homesite Features
You’ll find 49 thoughtfully arranged homesites within a 37-acre, tree-filled sanctuary, each sited to maximize privacy, walkability, and proximity to the beach and community amenities. Your lot was selected from detailed site studies to protect native forest, favor natural drainage and breezes, and support a lifestyle that minimizes car use while encouraging outdoor living and neighborhood connection.
Unique Characteristics of Each Lot
Your lot’s identity is defined by topography, canopy cover, and microclimate—some offer elevated views, others deep shade and sheltered clearings. These variations create distinct building envelopes, orientation opportunities for passive cooling, and landscape palettes that let you tailor design, privacy, and outdoor space to your lifestyle while preserving the site’s natural character.
Architectural Collaboration and Guidelines
Early homes were developed with prominent architects to illustrate how design can honor the forested setting; those examples translate into clear architectural guidelines you’ll use when planning your home. You’ll work with the local team to ensure materials, scale, and siting respect biodiversity and neighborhood character while delivering beauty, comfort, and a strong indoor–outdoor connection.
The guidelines emphasize a limited materials palette, modest rooflines, setbacks that protect tree roots and wildlife corridors, and minimal impervious surfaces for water infiltration. You’ll be guided toward passive cooling strategies, shaded outdoor living areas, native plant landscaping, and a streamlined approval process that balances design freedom with stewardship of the land.
Home Design Inspiration
Within El Bosque you draw inspiration from the 37-acre forest sanctuary and nearby Playa Guiones, designing homes that harmonize with the canopy, topography, and climate. The master plan and architectural guidelines steer you toward local materials, passive ventilation, and indoor-outdoor living so your residence feels integrated with the landscape while delivering modern comfort, walkability, and a strong sense of place.
Examples of Home Designs
Built examples developed with prominent architects illustrate how to respect the site while achieving beauty and comfort: shaded footprints, expansive terraces, and framed forest views. You can see how material palettes age gracefully, passive cooling strategies reduce reliance on mechanical systems, and thoughtful layouts create privacy and community connection across varied homesites.
Encouraging Personalization and Creativity
El Bosque invites you to personalize within ecological guidelines so your home reflects your lifestyle and values. You decide on orientation, room configurations, and finishes that respond to light, breeze, and views, allowing your creativity to produce a residence that performs efficiently, fosters neighborly interaction, and preserves the forest’s character.
Practically, personalization can include open-air living rooms, covered terraces that extend usable seasons, native landscaping, green roofs, rainwater capture, solar-ready systems, and flexible interiors for guests or studios. Local architects, builders, and the El Bosque team support you through design refinement and site-specific solutions that balance aesthetic goals with low-impact building practices.
Resident Experience
As a resident of El Bosque you live inside a 37-acre tree-filled sanctuary a short walk from the beach, where daily life blends quiet forest moments with easy access to Playa Guiones. Your days are shaped by walkable streets, neighbors who value nature and creativity, and opportunities for kids to play under the canopy and adults to gather under the stars. The community supports sustainable living while preserving the wild character that defines your home.
Outdoor Adventures and Community Living
You’ll find trails from your doorstep that lead to secret groves, surf breaks, and communal gathering spots, making adventure part of everyday life. With minimized car dependence and deliberate planning for walkability, you move through the neighborhood on foot or bike, encountering neighbors, shared events, and spontaneous play. This design encourages a lifestyle where nature, recreation, and community connection are woven into your routine.
Sharing Stories Through the Blog
The El Bosque blog is your digital notebook that translates the neighborhood’s magic into stories, insights, and practical details. You’ll use it to explore Notes from the Forest, architectural ideas, and community happenings that help you imagine life here. It informs and inspires your decisions about living, designing, and contributing to the neighborhood’s evolving story.
On the blog you’ll find in-depth posts that support your transition to El Bosque: site studies, design guidelines, resident narratives, and updates on community events and conservation efforts. The content offers actionable tips for building lightly, maintaining biodiversity, and integrating into local culture, while giving you direct access to the team for tours, questions, and next steps in making El Bosque your home.
Frequently Asked Questions
You’ll find answers here to common questions about owning in El Bosque, from site selection to community living. Our local team supports your due diligence, tours, and the purchase timeline, so you can move forward with confidence and a clear understanding of living in Nosara.
Land Purchase Process
You begin by contacting our team to review available homesites and schedule a tour. You’ll undertake due diligence with local legal counsel, confirm boundaries and utilities, and negotiate terms. Once agreed, you’ll follow a deposit and escrow process, complete closing with clear title, and receive ongoing support for transition into the community.
Home Construction Guidance
You’ll design homes that respect the forest and El Bosque guidelines, working with recommended architects and engineers. Our standards prioritize low-impact siting, passive ventilation, and material choices suited to the dry tropical climate. You’ll coordinate permits, select local contractors, and use our pre-built examples as design inspiration.
For more detail, you’ll want to engage an architect early to align your vision with site constraints and neighborhood covenants; they’ll prepare permit-ready plans and coordinate structural, electrical, and septic engineering. You’ll also benefit from a project manager or builder experienced in Nosara to oversee timelines, sourcing of appropriate materials, and compliance with community guidelines to ensure a smooth build and lasting resilience.
