Our 2 bedroom, Jungle Loft is the perfect family island retreat..  All of your modern conveniences are nestled in the jungle.
SQ.FT.
2,300
Ceiling Height
13′
Solar KW
7

Add a Home to Your Land

Adding a home to your land on Boca Chica Island is a simple process.
  1. Choose your Parcel.  Start by looking at the currently available parcels.
  2. Reserve your Parcel. Learn how that process works here.
  3. Choose which home you'd like to build on your parcel.  You can do this any time within 1 year of your land purchase.
These homes are currently only available in Viva Tropical projects.    

Bedrooms:  

2

Bathrooms: 

2

$230,000

Floorplan Concept

The 688 sq. ft. living room is open to the kitchen so you can enjoy cooking on the island with friends and family.

Glass doors can retract and leave large open areas on 3 sides of the room so you enjoy the island breeze.

The 2 bedroom Jungle Loft can be expanded in the future as your needs expand.

Why You Want It

Perfect Island Getaway

Immerse yourself in nature as you enjoy the benefits of private island ownership in your 2 bedroom Jungle Loft.  Use it as your getaway now and expand it later as your needs grow.

 

Optimized for Rental Income

The 1 bedroom, Jungle Loft model is a great size for nightly or weekly rentals.

 

Room to Grow

Our Adaptable Building System allows you to build your 1 bedroom home today.  If you need more space later, no problem.  The home comes pre-made for future expansion.

 

Simple Process

Your jungle estate in the tropics won’t get easier than this.  We’ve already spent years perfecting the system.  Why not benefit from that?  Simply order a Jungle Loft for your island parcel and start enjoying your new home.

What it Comes With

All materials

We source all of the materials and have them sent to a central point for shipping to Panama.  See the material spec sheet here.

 

Shipping & Logistics

We coordinate all of the shipping, customs, & duties required to bring the materials to Panama.  Then our team ships them to Chiriqui, barges them to the island, and delivers them to your building site.

Construction

We have personally chosen the top contractors in the region to build your home.  The price includes construction.

The only portion not included is the preparation of your site.  Your choice of building site will determine that cost, which we can provide once you’ve chosen a building site on your parcel.

How The Process Works

Adding a home or cabana to your land on Boca Chica Island is straightforward and painless.

Choose your model, make the payment, and our team of experienced shippers and builders will handle it for you.

More Details

Get Started

Get started today by choosing your land.

Available Parcels

How the Jungle Loft Materials and Design Benefit You


Rest easy knowing that every aspect of your Jungle Loft has been well thought through and designed with the aim of providing the best building system possible for the island’s environment.  Here are a few of the important ones.

Tropical-Modern Design

We’ve gone as far as possible to design a home that is environmentally friendly, bomb-proof longevity, cost effective….all without sacrificing that tropical modern feel.

Here are the elements that we’ve used to accomplish that.

The Framing Structure

One of the most important decisions that you’ll make when buying a home is the material that you use for it’s structure.  You have 3 basic choices here.

Wood – Wood is the lowest cost method, but its very difficult to maintain in the tropics.  Termites and mold are a never-ending battle in a wood framed structure in the tropics.

Concrete Block – Block is the still most widely used system in Central America, but that’s changing fast because the cost of block has risen exponentially over the last 15 years.

Though block lasts a very long time, it’s horribly inefficient.  Construction times are 300% longer with block under normal circumstances.  If you’re barging material and labor out to the island to build with block, those expenses go up considerably.

Steel – This is the obvious choice for the island.  We chose galvanized steel because it far exceeded our parameters in several ways.

Low Maintenance & Long Life

The typical maintenance problems with homes in the tropics have to do with bugs,  mold, and rust.  Bugs don’t eat steel and it doesn’t mold.  Because light steel is galvanized, its corrosion factor is greatly reduced.

We have seen homes that were famed in light steel sit unattended in the jungle for decades and still look as good as they day they were built.

It’s Environmentally Friendly

We love efficiency.  With light steel, all of the materials are laser cut off-site before they are loaded into the container.  All of the holes are pre-drilled as the steel runs through the forming machine.

This means that when you get it to the site, it’s ready to be bolted together like lego.  Reduced waste and faster construction times are better for the environment.

There is no site waste and it has a high strength to weight ratio.  Fewer deliveries mean less emissions.

With steel, there are no trees to cut or large concrete plants to draw from the local rivers, and 80% of the steel is fabricated from recycled materials.

It’s Cost Effective

Light steel is more expensive than wood for framing and less expensive than concrete block.  However, that’s the end of where wood ends the cost question.  Wood building requires skilled carpenters that barely exists in Central America.  This results in unexpectedly high construction costs.

Not counting the off-grid system (so that we can compare apples to apples), our 2 bedroom model costs far less per square foot to build than what you’ll find in the local market.

This is lower than normal construction costs in virtually every part of the US (or Panama for that matter).  That’s before we consider the fact that your Jungle Loft home comes loaded with teak floors, a high end kitchen, and….it’s being built on an island.

The Roofing System

The Jungle Loft roofing system is a critical component for several reasons.

It’s the Best Place for Solar Panels

The farther away your solar panels are, the less efficient they become.  Cabling to a farther away location also gets expensive.  Putting the panels on your roof just makes sense.

Great Insulation

The roofing system comes with an 8 inch thick piece of insulation sandwiched in between the panels.  This goes a long way for preventing heat being passed inside your house.

Its Angle is the Best Passive Cooling Design

Don’t go to sleep on this one.  Otherwise your home is going to be so dang hot at night, you won’t be able to sleep!  The shape of the roof is intentionally designed to force the warm air out of the home.

And of course we love the tropical rooflines with optional teak ceilings underneath!

More on That Passive Cooling Design

Over the years we’ve personally experienced how important this is in the tropics.  Off-Grid kilowatts are expensive.  And air conditioners are pigs when it comes to electrical consumption.  So you want a design that reduces the amount of A/C that you need.

That’s why we hired a passive cooling expert specifically to aid in the design of the Jungle Lofts

Its roof line and operable upper windows are only a few of the design decisions that were made to keep cool air moving in and hot air moving out of your home.

The Electrical System

For those of us interested in off grid power, we are living in exciting times!  We have personally witnessed the cost of solar panels reduced by over 65% even since the first panels were installed on the island.

Now we have multi billion companies like Tesla, Mercedes-Benze, and Nissan, engaging in an arms race to drive down the cost of power storage…aka batteries.

Your Jungle Loft comes with a cutting edge power system.

This includes solar panels, inverter, and battery.

The Paneling System

The Jungle Loft paneling system is half of what gives it such a huge amount of flexibility.

Floor-plan Layout Flexibility

Once you have your primary structure in place (that’s the platform and roof), the paneling system allows you to configure your walls however you want.

They are non-load bearing, and you can put them anywhere.  Our pre-priced homes already have floor-plans in place, but if you’re buying a cabana shell, or if you want to make changes later, you’ll have that option available with the paneling system.

Material Flexibility

Things get even more exciting here.  There are no limits to the materials that you can use for your walls with these panels.  The panels are designed to fit glass in their center, sheetrock, or even wood.  Go cut a tree from your lot and add that to your panels if you like.  The possibilities are endless.

The Foundation System

Your type of foundation is a big cost decision.  If you have to move a bunch of earth in order to make a perfectly flat space for your home then you’re not only stressing the ecosystem of the island, but you’re spending a lot of extra money.

Jungle Lofts are built on concrete columns.  These columns are structurally engineered to more than support the home on top.

This not only allows for efficient construction on the islands challenging topography, but its the most cost effective and environmentally friendly solution for building on the island.

Water Filtration & Rainwater Catch

Your Jungle Loft comes with a state of the art water filtration system.  The water on your island home far exceed the purity standards in North America.

Thanks to the shape of the roofline, your home is equipped with a rainwater catch system.  This may not be necessary because there are multiple fresh water wells on the island, but why not take advantage of Panama’s 10 feet per year of annual rainfall!