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How do you build a luxury home in the middle of the jungle? “The secret,” says Donald Loria Prendas, an architect who designs high-end homes in Costa Rica’s Nosara, “is lots of glass.”

In this beachside town, popular with yogis and surfers, homeowners “want to have a sensation of being in the jungle and [on the] beach without spiders and insects,” says Mr. Loria Prendas.

That means that in a low-key spot once dominated by…