PDC Accommodation

Stay inside the design.

Take your course while living in a traditional Thai house shaped by the same thinking the course teaches.

Thai house places

The PDC + Thai house

Ten nights · four rooms only · campus dorm and tent option at ฿18,000

From฿28,000

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Also open for the 2-day intro

The 2-day intro + Thai house

Three nights · 14 to 17 August 2026 · course, stay and meals included

From฿6,000

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The house

Walk through every corner.

Elevated view of the traditional Thai-style house with steep black gabled roofs, purple-red walls and wraparound balconies, raised on stilts against a forested hillside.

Upper terrace with steep gabled roofs and ornamental railings, looking out over the lake and forested hills.

Common room with colourful chairs and bookshelves.

Bedroom balcony view over the lake and hills.

The dark red Thai house on its lawn in soft evening light, forested hill behind.

Spacious guest bedroom with a vaulted white ceiling, two wooden single beds with white linen, a dark kitchenette counter with sink and kettle, and a teak wardrobe.

Tall-ceilinged guest bedroom with a ceiling fan, a wooden single bed with white bedding and orange patterned runner, and a dark kitchenette counter with kettle.

High-ceilinged suite sitting area with ceiling fan, wooden sofa with floral cushions, coffee table on a rug, and a dark kitchenette with sink and kettle.

Guest bedroom interior with a high vaulted white ceiling crossed by dark timber braces, pale yellow walls, a wooden double bed with white linens, and a tall wooden wardrobe.

Tall vaulted bedroom suite seen from the bed, with dark timber ceiling braces, a glass balcony door opening to a terrace with hills and treetops beyond.

Bathroom with beige stone-look wall tiles, black tiled floor, a marble vanity counter with inset basin and large mirror, and a toilet with an electronic seat.

Bathroom corner with a built-in white bathtub under a barred window, chrome tub fittings, a glass shower partition with handheld shower set, and beige wall tiles.

Small by design

Four rooms, eight guests,
one home.

4 roomsTwo double rooms and two twin rooms.

4 to 8 guestsPer course, depending on single occupancy.

10 nightsWrapped around the nine-day course.

Course on siteParts of the PDC are taught in the house itself.

The story

A house shaped by permaculture.

This house belongs to a friend of Neil, our lead teacher. He hired several architects to design it, and none of the proposals felt right. So Neil joined the conversations, bringing the tools he teaches on this course, sector analysis among them, and worked with the architects and the owner until the design made sense. The house you stay in is the result.

It draws on the Japanese courtyard-house tradition, where every room looks back onto the house itself. The rooms face each other across the courtyard, so from inside your room you are always looking at the architecture you are living in.

There is really only one view here: out over Bang Phra reservoir. The first proposal was a rectangular block with identical stacked rooms, each getting the same slice of lake. The built house turns that inside out: rooms look onto the house and its courtyard, and everyone shares the wide front balcony where the view belongs to the whole household at once.

And because it follows the traditional Thai pattern, raised on stilts, the shaded ground floor is generous, usable space. That is where parts of your course will actually be taught. Some mornings, the classroom is downstairs.