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Thesis Proposal On Resort Design
Thesis Proposal On Resort Design
INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
PULCHOWK CAMPUS
A THESIS PROPOSAL ON
DEISGNING
SUBMITTED TO:
SUBMITTED BY:
BISHWODEV BHATTARAI
064/B.ARCH./208
DATE: DECEMBER 16, 2011
TABLE OF CONTENT
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1. BACKGROUND
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1 WHAT IS RESORT
2.2 RESORT SCENARION IN NEPAL
3. INTRODUCTION OF PROJECT
4. JUSTIFICATION
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8.
OBJECTIVE
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
METHODOLOGY
PROPOSED CASE STUDY,PROGRAM STUDY AND
LITERATURE REVIEW
9. PROJECT OUTPUT
10. SITE ANALYSIS AND LOCATION INFORMATION
10.1 SWOT ANALYSIS OF SITE
11. PROGRAM FORMULATION AND AREA ANALYSIS
12. CONCLUSION
A. REFERENCES
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to pay my deep respect to my professor Dr. Sudarshan Raj Tiwari for his valuable
guidance and advice. It would have been a hard task for me to choose my thesis topic without
his suggestion and I am pleased to have him as our thesis coordinator.
I would also like to acknowledge seniors and friends for their worthy suggestions and advice.
At last, I would like to thank all of them who directly or indirectly helped during preparation of
this thesis proposal.
Bishwodev Bhattarai
064/B.Arch/208
1.0 BACKGROUND
Nepal comprises only 0.1% of the land area in a global scale but is endowed with
disproportionately rich diversity of flora and fauna; heart seizing scenic beauty; diverse
culture; ethnic etiquettes. Nepals diverse and magnificent environment along with the
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countrys hospitable and pleasant people has made her one of the major tourist destinations for
world around.
The diverse geology, climate, and biodiversity with in a short N-S length and variation in
culture, tradition, built forms, and socio-economic pattern is a uniqueness of Nepal. One can
experience scorching heat to freezing cold within 4-5 day trek, with a great natural and cultural
variance, which is almost hard to get anywhere in any other part of the world as the climate
here varies from Tropical to Arctic.
Globalization has narrowed the boundaries between countries and peoples curiosity is
dragging them here and there creating new from of social language, Tourism. Touring is a
historic concept but it has not been half a century, it developed as industry and gained its pace
to highly advanced state. Now, if we stare on present trend, tourism has been an essential part
of local as well national economy. Countries like Switzerland, Thailand, Maldives, China,
South Africa etc well known for tourism industry whose national economy rely in it. Dubai has
forecasted 2030 A.D (1)to be the time when its all oil resources exhaust. Thus, it has planned to
make it worlds prominent tourist destination by 2015 and creating architectural oasis with
tones and tones of money on constructing marvelous, iconic buildings like Burz Dubai, Burzal-Arab, Palm Island so that people all around fly there to enjoy the charm of modern
architecture. Thailand is well known for mall tourism, where foreigner goes for shopping,
tourist goes Switzerland for ski, Africa for wild safari and so on.
Nepal has also huge potential in this sector, as tourism is one of the major sources of foreign
exchange earner for the country and accounts for more than 17.11 % (2) of the total GDP. The
potential Culture and Nature tourism, which needs no extra infrastructural investment like in
sports tourism and the trend of tourism in Nepal is also what I have mentioned here.
There are two forms of economic growth caused by tourism, one is local which is due to
internal tourism, and other is national due to international tourism. The current trend of internal
tourism is so charming that few places like, Malekhu in Dhading, Ghale Gaun in Lamjung,
Chisapani in Kathmandu are blooming due to internal tourism. But, at the same time if there is
a point to upgrade the national economy, it has to be focused on international tourism where
people around the world travel miles and spent thousands of dollars to feel the scenic and
cultural beauty abroad.
Planner and economist have realized that economy of Nepal can be flourished through tourism
and with this fact, we are celebrating tourism year targeting to receive 1 million tourists by the
end of 2011. The number is high in terms of accommodation that is available in current
situation, hence, it can be understood that to meet this target in 2011 or some years later, it is
very necessary to create sufficient space with proper facilities. There are very less number of
resorts as compared to hotels and lodges and so, resort tourism is not so flourished in Nepal.
Resort can provide versatile functions and amenities and we are not being able to have
masterpiece resort to advocate all the demands, though some attempts made so far are
insufficient.
2.0 INTRODUCTION
2.1 WHAT IS RESORT
Resort is a place to spent holiday for relaxation and recreation so that, one can give dynamism
to their leisure time. Oxfords dictionary defines resort as place that is frequented for holidays
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or recreation or for a particular purpose. One can go and swim in resort, can have lunch, can go
just to pass time, plan an overnight stay and lit campfire, artist can complete their portrait,
novelist can finish novel, a poet can create his poem and tourist can have charming stay there.
A resort can function as a conference centre, as a meeting centre, as a banquette, as a
restaurant, as a health club and various other functions. A resort could be day serving and night
serving, and it provides the cuisine service.
According to the new definition, A resort is a full-service lodging facility that provides access
to or offers a range of amenities and recreation facilities to emphasize a leisure experience.
Resorts serve as the primary provider of the guests experience, often provide services for
business and meetings, and are characteristically located in vacation-oriented settings (3).
If we go through the history of resort, it dates back to Roman era where Therme serves
multifunctional recreation activity and most popular among this is Baiae(4). There may be
numerous form of resort like,
- Sports Resort
- Adventure Resort
- Nature Resort
- Eco Resort
- Agro- Resort
- Health Resort
However, the purpose is same, that they all serve people and among them majority is foreign
tourist. Resort being discussed here is self-contained one, and another form of resort could be
resort town where facilities are dispersed with in a small town or area. So, if we go through the
structural formation of resort then there are two types of resort;
1. Self contained of integrated resort
A modern form of resort where one can have all the resort facilities within a boundary.
All the functions are incorporated but the scope of resort may vary as we have
discussed above, like a resort focusing on sports may not concern in health facilities,
like wise wildlife safari resort may not pays attention to mountaineering. But, it is true
that resort is self contained units, where it is possible to have as much facilities as a
dweller needs. There are very few amount of self-contained resort in Nepal, thus, this
project will focus on designing full self-contained resort.
2. Resort town:
It is often understood as a traditional form of resort but this type carries essence of
resort where functions and facilities are scattered in a small town, which focuses on
tourism as its primary occupation. For example, Ghale Gaun, Ghandruk etc are resort
town. A resort town may be self developed like Helambu in Sindhupalchowk, Namche
in Solukhumbu or may be planned which is not found in Nepal.
Resort can be classified into several categories and have guidelines to rate them, but according
to service provided by them, it could be day resort with recreational facilities like, spa, sports,
sauna, health and cuisine facilities with several restaurant, bars, and various other amenities.
Other resort is that which provides lodging facilities with all necessary service requirements.
There is a guideline stated by Centre for Resort and Hospitality Business (5) for resorts having
lodging facility. This sort of resort shall,
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Above chart shows that, major tourist come for pleasure, thus, resort could be a best possible
arena to provide pleasing facilities and space for them.
Thus, there is a multiple task to be performed aside design of resort, which are research on
related topics, case studies, literature review on space, planning etc. Hence, it is a challenging
topic to work in spatial planning to incorporate the formulated programs, Landscape planning,
and along with sustainability in design.
4. JUSTIFICATION
In present context, tourism in Nepal holds a great potential to establish itself as a significant
means of economy. This sector has a great potentiality to generate foreign revenue, which can
bring about immediate socio-economic benefit from small investments.
A well-synchronized and planned resort, which caters the modern amenities as per the
requirement of the visitors, is a present need. We can find many resorts here and only few of
which are fulfilling these needs. In addition, most of the resorts are oriented to limited service
focusing only foreigners and paying very little attention to urban haves. The multifunctional
resorts are still absent in Nepal and this proposed resort will be one of the iconic resort with all
resort facilities which will ultimately promote resort tourism.
The fact that, Nepal is still deficient of required hotel rooms comparing to tourists inflow, it is
said that, the present number of hotel can only hold up to half a million visitors in a year. The
tourist estimated to visit in tourism year 2011 is far more that the holding capacity of available
accommodation. Thus, if we are really upon the promotion of tourism, we may receive more
than 1 million visitors a year, if not this year then probably the next, so there is still need of
huge numbers of hotels, resorts, lodges, home stays etc.
Viewing the present scenario of the world, the issue of eco-sensitive and sustainable
architecture must be raised by the architects and we as a architect can alter the landscape and
built form for which we need to understand and be responsible for its far-reaching
consequences. The future is hard to predict but some things are certain. There will be rise in
urban population in developing economies and an increase in levels of income. This project
will pay its attention towards the global energy crisis and climate change though it is a
worthless effort to give impact in global scale, but it will certainly create an example and
impact locally as there is saying, think locally, impact globally. This proposed resort could be
the masterpiece of all resort that are functioning today and will approach to give it global
identification.
The most important part is socio-economic impact. The society has changed a lot from
traditional to modern and still in the stage of metamorphosis, from modern to post modern and
Sanskritization through global interchange has not kept Nepalese society untouched. The
economic influence of tourism in Nepal is noteworthy as is has established itself as a
prominent foreign exchange earner. Before 1960s Pokhara was accessible only by foot, but
now the economy has boosted and people around the country are being pulled there (8).. Thus,
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tourism plays an important to upgrade local as well as national economy so resort proposed is
commercially acceptable.
The creation of unique resort in a built form will be the landmark of valley and even of Nepal
so that, it becomes place to visit. Resort tourism is well flourished in Maldives, and people go
there just dwell around the resort area. Likewise, this proposed resort will be leisure resort with
recreational activities, which could provide space for both internal and external tourist.
5. OBJECTIVES
The main objective of this proposal is to design Re-creative Tourist Resort for the partial
fulfillment of Bachelor Degree of Architecture. Specifically the objectives are to,
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Provide a recreational environment for the resort through varieties of facilities and
functions.
Provide hospitality for both domestic and foreigner tourists and promote tourism ultimately
Promote local as well as national economy through the promotion of both internal and
external tourism.
The establishment of tourist resort will create the economic opportunities to site
neighborhood. Also the local and national economy will boost due to establishment of
multifunctional recreational tourist resort.
Create an interactive ground for locals and visitors so that there may be interchange of
ideas and cultural demonstration.
Provide a space for official meetings and seminars in natural surroundings.
Make analytical study of the functional requirements of resort and implement efficient
design to carry out the functions smoothly.
Respond to climatic and energy consumption issues raised by present day architecture
through eco-sensitive design.
In addition, there are various objective related to achieving proper functioning built forms, that
can be achieved through literature reviews and research. Thus, the objectives are to,
- Study about the materials and technology regarding the sustainability in design
- Study about energy efficient design
- Study about passive solar architecture
- Study about low cost sustainable building materials
- Study about spatial organization and areal need of resort programs
The ultimate objective is to attain unique resort design with all the knowledge and skills that is
learned throughout four years of learning. The final design should be free from all the design
problems and should be outstanding from all the prevalent resort in Nepal.
6. SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS:
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This is preparatory phase for thesis project in which data, facts, spatial needs and requirements
are studied focusing on the approved topic. We will study the present functioning and
organization of spaces through case studies. All the findings gathered in this phase will be
applied in our design phase.
Design phase
- Site selection and analysis
- Program formulation and zoning
- Conceptual design
- Design development
- Analysis and evaluation of output design
- Preparation of architectural drawings, 3D views, model, report for final presentation
This phase will orient itself on creating proper design of thesis topic selected where the
combination of all knowledge gathered form research phase would be applied. This could be
better understood from the charts below,
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Tourism related data will be collected form ministry of Tourism and Nepal Tourism
Board.
Byelaws and Building codes will be studied from books issued by Kathmandu
Metropolitan City and Department of Urban Development and Building
Construction.
Other necessary literatures will be studied as per requirements.
For both case study and literature, internet is beneficial, so it will be maximum used.
9. PROJECT OUTPUT
General output
- Positive impact on tourism Entrepreneurs
- Employment generation and increase in the life standards of the local people
- Positive increment in the local as well as national economy
- Establishment of a tourist resort with ample facilities
- Sense of awareness towards sustainability in design
- Exposure of the site to the national level for provision of better infrastructures
Design output
- Research in related topic to simplify the problems related to resort design
- Iconic resort with multi facilities in well organized manner
- Planning and designing resort with all indoor and out door amenities
- Use of green technologies and environment sustainable design
- Use of different design concept to acquire final built structure with proper interior
and exterior complying with surrounding
- Final product as complete architectural drawings, 3Ds, model, report and other
supporting materials.
10. SITE ANALYSIS AND LOCATION INFORMATION
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Araniko
Hignwa
y
Club
Bagmati
Proposed
Site
Location
Area
Topography
GOOGLE SITE
Access
MAP
Water Supply
Electricity
Telecommunication
Sanitary
of transformation from its traditional form to building plots. Thus, resort development will help
to maintain the landscape of the site and create greenery. The site being near to world heritage
site and Araniko Highway, which is one of the major tourist routes, carries great potential on
tourism development.
10.1 SWOT ANALYSIS OF SITE
Strength
Renounced Location
Easy Access
Sub-Urban, Heritage fringe
Good Views towards North
Green Hills around
Free from Urban Congestion
Weakness
Haphazard Development and unplanned residential development
Minimum Road Frontage
No municipal Sewerage System
No proper land management, infrastructural facilities
Opportunity
Iconic resort, unique identity all over the country and world
Fewer Contours and no vegetation around
No resort development in site surroundings
Lack of Proper amenities and facilities available in other resorts
Internal as well as external tourist as its target group
Threat
Political Imbalance and low tourist arrival
Vandals and anti-social activities
Change in government policies
Market Inflation
Program
Capacit
y
Area
in
Sqm
Nos.
of
Unit
Total
Area
15
15
35
110
35
110
Remark
16
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
General Restaurant
Central Kitchen for Restaurant
Dry Store
Chilled Store
Waste Disposal area
Dish Wash Area
Kitchen Staff Toilet
Visitors Toilet
Office Space
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
x
y
z
2
a
b
Rest room
Utility room/ Store Room
Store Keeper
1 Person
Secondary Main Service Block
Reception Counter
2 Person
Operation managers Room
1 Person
15
Lobby/ Waiting
person
50
Restaurant
person
Kitchen with accessory spaces
20
General Bar
Person
20
Cocktail Bar
Person
100
Discotheque
Person
2
DJ control Room
person
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
1 Person
4
person
5
person
1 Person
1 Person
1
person
1 Person
1 Person
1 Person
1 Person
6 Person
2
person
15
person
2
person
135
70
10
10
10
10
4.5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
135
70
15
15
10
10
4.5
4.5
18
15
30
30
1
1
1
15
30
30
20
15
15
15
15
45
2
1
1
1
1
1
40
15
15
15
15
45
15
15
50
50
4.5
10
10
2
1
1
9
10
10
8
15
1
1
8
15
35
35
70
50
2
2
140
100
20
20
20
20
150
150
20
20
17
2 Person
10
Person
Library
e
f
Conference Hall 2
Conference Hall 1
j
k
Cyber Caf
Lobby/ Foyer
b
5
Rest Rooms
Recreational Block
Squash hall
Gymnasium
Aerobics
Meditation
e
f
g
Barber/ Parlor
Coffee/ Tea shop
Spa
20
Person
15
Person
20
Person
1 Person
2
person
100Pers
on
50
person
10
Person
10
Person
250
Person
50
Person
12
Person
2
person
25
Person
10
Person
20
Person
2
person
8 Person
1 Person
4.5
4.5
10
4.5
15
10
1
1
1
45
10
4.5
15
35
4
1
1
35
4
30
30
60
60
100
10
1
1
100
10
4.5
150
150
75
75
4.5
20
10
1
20
20
400
400
40
40
4.5
12
60
60
75
75
40
40
30
30
25
20
10
1
1
1
25
20
10
With Audio
Visual
Presentaion
2 in each
18 floor
including
45 Urinals
20
including
54 Urinals
18
Sauna
Snooker
10
18
1
4
10
72
1 Person
4 Person
30
person
30
Rest Room
6 Person
Common Accommodation
20
Unit
Rooms
Individual Accommodation Unit
Up to 8
Group User Block
User
2+ 1
Couple/ Honeymoon Block
Child
4.5
40
20
75
375 Kitchenette
40
20
800 Kitchenette
Family Block
4-5 User
Staff Accommodation and Back House
Staff Kitchen
15 User
Staff Dining
15 User
Wash Area
Site Storage
10
Accommodation Units
rooms
2
Rest rooms
person
Family Suite for High level staff
2 Family
Generator and Battery Room
4
Guard House
Person
Total Area
10 % Circulation Space
3 % Structural Envelope Ground
Coverage
Total Proposed Built- Up Area
80
640 Kitchenette
15
20
5
30
1
1
1
1
15
20
5
30
15
10
150
4.5
80
30
2
2
1
9
160
30
10
40
5868
586.8
6
7
a
b
c
8
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
9
For Swimming
For Swimming
175
6629
Note: All the programs and areal data are taken from general conception and brief study of
Time Saver Standard. They are likely to change during design phase according to the
requirements.
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13. CONCLUSION
The project proposed here on designing Recreational Tourist Resort is an academic
requirement, for the partial fulfillment of Bachelors Degree in Architecture, which is purely
oriented in design rather than social surveys and research findings, so, this is not to provide
new intervention and is only continuation of culture. However, we can see intervention in
design approach.
The project will focus on research, literature reviews, and case studies, which will help to
gather informations and finally its application to designated project. The final product of this
project will be an iconic resort in the arena of tourism industry, with all necessary architectural
drawings, 3D views, Model, Report and other supporting materials and documents.
The entire thesis project wills a challenge and opportunity to accumulate bunches of
information regarding the topic. All those gathered tools and technique will be applied and
project will harmonize socio-cultural aspect of community with form and function of resort
The project will also focus on detailed site analysis and brief feasibility study, and tend to solve
the problems existing there. It will concentrate to create better physical and socio-economic
environment than what exist today.
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3. http://www.caribbeanhotelassociation.com/source/Members/DataCenter/ResearchUofMemphis.pdf
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resort#Historical_resorts
5. http://www.caribbeanhotelassociation.com/source/Members/DataCenter/ResearchUofMemphis.pdf
6. www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-9293889-Nepal-Hotels.html
7. http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?
DocumentID=502&ArticleID=5545&l=en
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhara
9. http://nepal-meteo.ru/en/bkhaktapur/pivot/wind
10. Architects Data- Neufert
11. Google Maps
12. Newa Village Resort: Thesis 2009, by Anjana Pradananga
13. Eco-Sensitive Resort: Thesis2010, by Puspa Thapa
14. Agro Tourism Resort: Thesis 2010, by Mahesh Bista
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