The Eden Project is reviving plans to build a hotel with swimming pools warmed by heat from rocks underground.
Sir Tim Smit, the project’s co-founder, said the complex, plans for which were shelved during the pandemic, would be built using only local materials sourced from within 30 miles of the vast clay pit in Cornwall where the Eden Project is located.
Smit is working with Wasp, an Italian company that uses clay and soil to construct buildings using 3D printing. Other materials being considered include hemp.
“We are going to build a hotel at Eden,” he told the Oxford Farming Conference. “It is going to be accommodation for the greatest hot water pools in mainland Europe.”
