Vana Nava Water Jungle Park

Vana Nava Water Jungle is an oasis of fun in the heart of Hua Hin, Thailand, nestled in the lush landscape that engulfs the water park. Vana Nava’s Hua Hin Water Jungle incorporates iconic architectural and design elements with organically shaped canopies and a variety of exotic plants and tropical trees.

For this water park, the design and construction team created a 6400-square-metre jungle where nothing existed before, planting 200,000 trees and plants. Many of the trees are between 30 and 40 years old, recovered from areas involved in the construction of infrastructures or supplied by the landscape architect.

The designers refer to the site, which opened in 2014, as the first ecologically conscious water park in the region. The outstanding feature of Vana Nava Hua Hin Water Jungle is the synergy with nature and the integration of a water park in a tropical forest (The Green Mechanical Engineering).

To build this, they were inspired by the shapes of nature such as the leaves of trees or the fish in the sea but also by the lifestyle of fishermen in order to reflect the history of the seaside town of Hua Hin which has now become a very famous tourist resort in Thailand.

Project details: Water park

Works: 2014

Principal: Sino-Thai Engineering & Construction

Architect: WhiteWater West Industries

Designer: WhiteWater West Industries

Landscape Architect: Belt Collins

Mechanical/Structural Design: AE49