TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
PULCHOWK CAMPUS

A THESIS PROPOSAL ON
DEISGNING
RECREATIONAL TOURIST RESORT
FOR PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF REQUIREMENT FOR THE COMPLETION OF
BACHELORS DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE

SUBMITTED TO:
PROF. DR. SUDARSHAN RAJ TIWARI
THESIS COORDINATOR 

SUBMITTED BY:
BISHWODEV BHATTARAI
064/B.ARCH./208

DATE: DECEMBER 16, 2011

 

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TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE NO

1. BACKGROUND 4
2.  INTRODUCTION 5
2.1 WHAT IS RESORT 5
2.2 RESORT SCENARION IN NEPAL 6
3.  INTRODUCTION OF PROJECT 8
4.  JUSTIFICATION 9

5.  OBJECTIVE 10
6.  SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS 10
7.  METHODOLOGY 11
8.  PROPOSED CASE STUDY,PROGRAM STUDY AND 13
LITERATURE REVIEW
9.  PROJECT OUTPUT 14
10. SITE ANALYSIS AND LOCATION INFORMATION 14
10.1 SWOT ANALYSIS OF SITE 15
11. PROGRAM FORMULATION AND AREA ANALYSIS 16
12. CONCLUSION 19
A.  REFERENCES 20

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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

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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. Nepal¶s diverse and magnificent environment along with the
country¶s 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 people¶s 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 world¶s prominent tourist destination by 2015 and creating architectural oasis with
tones and tones of money on constructing marvelous, iconic buildings like Burz Dubai, Burz-
al-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
(2)
exchange earner for the country and accounts for more than 17.11 % 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.

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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. Oxford¶s dictionary defines resort as place that is frequented for holidays
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, µA 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 
(3)
 business and meetings, and are characteristically located in vacation-oriented settings¶ .
If we go through the history of resort, it dates back to Roman era where Therme serves
(4)
multifunctional recreation activity and most popular among this is  Baiae . 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.

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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,

-  Provide one signature amenity or anchor attribute

-  Provide five secondary recreation/leisure/entertainment experiences
-  Provide one full-service food & beverage outlet
-  Bed-base must include short-term or overnight lodging
-  Minimum of 25 rooms or other accommodations (exception to minimum for 
 properties with two signature amenity/anchor attributes)
-  Emphasize a leisure or retreat-environment experience

The definition of few terms states above,

Signature Amenities:
Signature amenities are amenities, attractions, and geographically significant attributes that a
resort requires to provide in order to be considered as a resort. These include, for example:
golf, ski/mountain, beach/ocean, lakeside, casino/gaming, all-inclusiveness,
spa/health/wellness, marina, tennis, and Water Park. For property-generated or fabricated
amenities, they need to be considered full-service to be a signature amenity.

Anchor Attribute:
It is minimum number of amenities that a resort should provide in addition to lodging and
cuisine facility. The minimum number of amenity is five, below this number; it is no more
resort. Among various facilities like Health, Gymnasium, Sports, Library, Museum, Swimming
 pool, Educational, Dude ranch, Casino, Discotheque etc, it should have minimum of five.

A mixture of various amenities, majestic hospitality, fantastic built structures and creative
landscapes will create illustrative resort.

2.2 RESORT SCENARIO IN NEPAL

After Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa conquered the Everest peak in 1953,
mountain tourism rose aloft, and its pace has not slowed yet until today. Formal tourism
developed in Nepal since two of these climbers dig the victory flag in the top of Everest, thus,
early 50¶s is the era of tourism development in Nepal.
The inflow if international visitors pointed the necessity of accommodation and other utilities
facilitating them and so, the development of hotels and resorts started and if we look upon the
(6)
current numbers, there are all together 257 . Tourist hotels and resort with rated standard.
Hotels and resort for different purpose and the target group is also different but at the same
time, they perform similar functions to some extent. Both are the units of tourism sector and
 primary service client is tourist.
Tourists are the people who travel for recreational, leisure or business purpose. According to
world tourism organization, tourist are the people who travels to and stay in places outside
their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other 
 purposes. Nepal has short history of receiving formal tourist and it has not been more than half 
a century. There is three major purpose of tourism,

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-  For pleasure: Pleasure means to enjoy, relax, and have satisfaction from the leisure
time that is acquired through spending the money. People coming for holiday,
trekking, mountaineering, rafting, and adventure are form of pleasure tourism.
-  For business: People coming for pure official or business work falls in this
category. But we should note that, these tourists also requires proper 
accommodation, cuisine, and facilities along with pleasing hospitality. This may
include the diplomatic visits.
-  For mix purpose: Some tourist may come for private business or official work, and
extend their stay to visit some of the important places around.

Let us see the chart below showing the purpose of visit

Year  Pleasu re Trekking & Business Official Pilgrimage Meeting & Others Total
(December) Mountaineering Seminar 
2000 255889 118780 29454 20832 15801 5599 17291 463646
55.2 25.6 6.4 4.5 3.4 1.2 3.7 100
2001 187022 100828 18528 18727 13816 - 22316 161237
51.8 27.9 5.1 5.2 3.8 - 6.2 100
2002 110143 59279 16690 17783.00 12366 - 58907 275468
40 21.5 6.2 6.50 4.5 0 21.3 100
2003 97904 65721 19387 21967 21395 - 111758 338132
29 19.4 5.7 6.50 6.3 0 33.1 100
2004 167262 69442 13948 17088 45664 - 71893 385297
43.4 18 3.6 4.40 11.9 0 18.7 100
2005 160259 61488 21992 16859 47621 - 67179 375398
42.7 16.4 5.90 4.50 12.7 0 17.8 100
2006 145802 66931 21066 18063 59298 - 72766 383926
38.0 17.4 5.5 4.7 15.4 - 19.0 100
2007 217815 101320 24487 21670 52594 8019 100800 526705
41.4 19.2 4.6 4.1 10.0 1.5 19.2 100
2008* 152950 100055 23039 45091 43044 6938 129160 500277
30.6 20.0 4.6 9.0 8.6 1.4 25.8 100
Source: Ministry of Culture, Touris m and Civ il Aviation  
 Note: Figures in bold represen t percentage share in total  
* Estimated

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.

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3. INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT

This is a thesis proposal on designing the Recreational Tourist Resort, for the partial fulfillment
of Bachelors Degree of Architecture. This covers design problems related to resort and tourist
space, from program formulation, site selection, case studies, literature reviews, research, and
design. The project will try to incorporate all the necessary facilities and amenities and will be
the largest resort in the country.
With a change of time, the meaning of resort has changed and now it has been a commercial
form of making money. Resort, proposed here, is also a commercial tourist resort, which
 provides hospitality to both internal as well as external tourism as it cannot depend wholly on
foreigners, as there is seasonal variance in incoming tourists. The resort will be located in
urban fringe, not very far from the core city so as it could serve urban people well and be their 
holiday destination. The good resort is that which plunge people, gives feelings of intimacy,
and never urge them to move away from its boundary.
Thus, spaces has to be planned so that it comply with the demand of both national and
international visitors and standards to meet their demands. It is hard task to incorporate both
forms in a same resort as there is disambiguation in social and economic pattern but that can be
solved by classifying the group of users.
This resort will perform multifunction, as it will have restaurants, Conference halls, Lodging
suites, Individual Cottages, Heath Club, Curio Shop, Ethnographic Museum, Small Library,
  performance space etc. Besides this, it will have services like Parking, Receptions, Plazas,
Tourist Information Centre, and recreational spaces like Swimming Pool, Mini Golf Course,
Lawn Tennis, Natural as well as artificial landscapes and Space for Artists, Writers etc.
If we see the present scenario, we cannot find all these activities in single resort, thus, it is
important to know the management of all these activities and also we cannot take this sort of 
resort more far form urban fringe as target group is urban dwellers too.
The resort will attempt to integrate the socio-cultural aspect of Nepalese society with
contemporary spatial demand of resort and create harmony between them, together 
harmonizing it with site, and surrounding to fit it in context.
One most important thing is that the resort will be focusing more on its services which are
  provided through proper design of spaces and at the same time, it will be concerning on the
sustainability in architecture, of which the world is thirsty. The tremendous rise of energy
demand has created uncertain future seeking a new form of design concept based on passive
(7)
solar technologies and sustainability in built form. Building sector contributes 30%-40% . of 
total global energy consumption, which is increasing in rapid pace which need to be reduced
and it is our duty to create efficient design, though we are designing a virtual project.
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.

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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 1960¶s Pokhara was accessible only by foot, but
(8)
now the economy has boosted and people around the country are being pulled there .. Thus,
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.

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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,

-  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:

The scopes of the projects are,

The resort with recreational facilities posses¶ wide range of scope. If we analyze the present
trend of internal resort tourism and need of leisure place, then it is acceptable to have
multifunctional resort, which not only focus on overnight stay but also concern in day services
too.
For internal visitors, there is no trend of going hotels in weekend, due to their location on core
urban area. They intend to go some distance far from city so that they can enjoy the
environment and freshness there. Hence, resort tourism can provide best solution to internal
tourism.

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For external tourism, it will function as a luxurious resort which provides all the facilities
within its boundary so as to make their stay pleasing and exotic. It will help to promote resort
tourism in Nepal and encourage foreigner to come here once just to stay in this very resort.
Ultimately, it will enhance tourism sector of country.
Resort can also be a place for convection and conference, and that depends on the quality of 
space they provide so that the convection, conference or seminar becomes more interesting and
fascinating. The proposed resort will attempt to provide seminar space to meet international
standard.
The resort will be a place to gain knowledge regarding the green design, as it will apply
integrated energy system.

The limitations of the projects are,

It will not focus more on social survey, research as this is an academic project, and this does
not fall under the primary constraint.
The project is concerned in built form so; there will be limited research and study on feasibility
of project and detailed site suitability will not be analyzed.
The project will not focus on structural analysis of built structures of resorts, although
structural consultation will be made and it will not be sufficient.
The project will not covers all the details related to green design incorporated, though research
will be made and required level of detailing will be done to meet the architectural requirement.
Detailed environment assessment will nit be done due to limitation of knowledge in this field
and it is not our primary focus, as the project is virtual. However, some impact will be
analyzed.

7. METHODOLOGY

The project will be oriented to meet the requirements for the completion of Bachelors Degree
in Architecture. Though it is an academic requirement, it will be based on ground reality.
The following methodologies will be adopted in two phases to come up with the final design.

Research phase
-  Literature Review
-  Case study
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

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-  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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8. PROPOSED CASE STUDY, PROGRAM STUDY AND LITERATURE REVIEW,

It is very essential to know about functioning and spatial management of resort before
commencing the design work, hence several cases on related topic will be studied. There are
numerous resorts in Nepal, but none of them are likely to meet all the requirements of the
resort proposed here. Thus, several resort will be studied and besides this, related program will
 be studied separately. Following case study will be performed,
 National Context
-  Godavari Village Resort- Godavari
-  Hattiban Resort-Hattiban
-  Dhulikhel Mountain Resort- Dhulikhel
-  Fishtail Lodge- Pokhara
-  Gokarna Forest Resort- Gokarna
International Context
-  Leela Resort- Goa, India
-  Kiching Horse mountain Resort- Canada
- Vista Mar Golf and Beach Resort- Pasific Coast, Republic of Panama
Following program will be studied
-  Mini Golf Course of Soltee Crown Plaza at Tilganga
-  Swimming pool of different hotels and resorts
-  Study of integrated energy system in Zero Energy House - IOE, Pulchowk.
-  Ethnographic museum of Nepal Tourism Board - Exhibition Road.
-  Others will be studied as per necessity.

Following will be studied in literature review part,

-  Time Saver Standard for Buildings
-  An Architects Handbook- Edited by Quinten Pickard (RIBA)
-  Architects Data- Ernst and Peter Neufert
-  The Ecology of Building Materials- Bjørn Berge
-  Architecture: Comfort and Energy, Editors- C. Gallo, M. Sala, A.A.M. Sayigh
-  Day lightening - Derek Phillips
-  Sustainable Design; Ecology,Architecture,and Planning - Daniel E. Williams, FAIA
-  Resort Definations and Terminilogies,
(www.caribbeanhotelassociation.com/ ... /Resear ch-UofMemphis. pdf )
-  Resort Design; Planning, Architecture and Interior ± Book by Mc-Graw Hill.
-  Data related to Wind, Solar PV cells, and other green technologies will be collected
from Center for Energy Studies ( CES), Pulchowk Campus and Alternative Energy
Promotion Centre, Khumaltar 
-  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.

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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, 3D¶s, model, report and other 
supporting materials.

10. SITE ANALYSIS AND LOCATION INFORMATION

Araniko 
Hignway

Club
Bagmati

Proposed  
Site 

Location : Bhaktapur District, Sipadol VDC, Ward no-2

Latitude: 27º39¶46.24¶¶ N to 27º39¶36¶¶N
Longitude: 85º25¶54.93¶¶ E to 85º25¶57.09¶¶E

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Area : 34129.48 Sqm, 67-3-0-0

P Topography : Slight Contoured form east to west, the total level difference is 32¶
Access : It is 12 Km east of Kathmandu, About 10 min ride from Koteshwor.
Water Supply : No provision of water supply
Electricity : 3- Phased grid from Nepal Electricity Authority is present
Telecommunication : Provision of Land line Point form Nepal Telecom
Sanitary : No provision

Climatic Data from Wikipedia.org (Based on 2005 Records)

- Maximum Average Temperature : 18ºC in Jan, 28.3º in June
- Minimum Average Temperature : 1.2ºC in Jan, 20º in July
- Annual Relative Humidity : 75%
- Average Sunshine Hours/Day :7
- Annual Average Precipitation : 7.5 mm in Nov, 359.6 in July ( Annual Precipitation of 
1124 mm.
- Average Annual Wind Velocity
(9)
: 5 m/s in earth surface, 14m/s 50 m above ground . 

Selection Criteria: The site lies very near to the traditional settlement of Bhaktapur, an
important historical and cultural city. It is near to the core urban and easily accessible to both
internal visitor as well as external visitor. There is abundant agricultural land, which is in verge
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

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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

12. PROGRAM FORMULATION AND AREA ANALYSIS

Area Nos.
Total
S.N Program Capacity in of   Remark
Area
Sqm Unit
1 Multi Function Block ( Mother Unit)
a Reception Counter  4 Person 15  1 15 

b Lobby/ Waiting 15 person 35  1 35 

c Lounge  50 person 110  110 

100 
d General Restaurant person 135  1 135 

e Central Kitchen for Restaurant 70  1 70 

f  Dry Store  10  1 15 

g Chilled Store  10  1 15 

h Waste Disposal area 10  1 10 

i Dish Wash Area 10  1 10 

  j Kitch
en Staff  Toilet 1 Person 4.5  1 4.5 

k Visitors Toilet 4 person 4.5  4 18 

Office Space
m Waiting and Reception 5 person 15  1 15 

n Chair Person's Room 1 Person 30  1 30 

o General Manager Room 1 Person 30  1 30 

p Deputy Managers Room 1 person 20 2 40 

q HR Manager Room 1 Person 15  1 15 

r House Keeping Manager  1 Person 15  1 15 

s Engineering Department 1 Person 15  1 15 

t Legal Department 1 Person 15  1 15 

u Admini strative Staff  room 6 Person 45  1 45 

v Accounting Staff  Room 2 person 15  1 15 

w Meeting / Presentation Hall 15 person 50  1 50 

x Rest room 2 person 4.5 2 9 

y Utility room/ Store Room 10  1 10 

z Store Keeper  1 Person 10  1 10 

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2 Secondary Main Service Block

a Reception Counter 2 Person 8  1 8 

b Operation managers Room 1 Person 15  1 15 

c Lobby/ Waiting 15 person 35  1 35 

d Restaurant 50 person 70 2 140 

e Kitchen with accessory spaces  50 2 100 

f  General Bar 20 Person 20  1 20 

g Cocktail Bar 20 Person 20  1 20 
100 
h Discotheque  Person 150  1 150 

i DJ control Room 2 person 20  1 20 

 j Rest room for restaurant 2 Person 4.5 2 9 

k Rest Room for Discotheque  10 Person 4.5  10 45 

l Buffer Room For Discotheque  10  1 10 

m Rest room for Staff   1 Person 4.5  1 4.5 

n Utility room/ Store Room 15  1 15 

3 Informative and Learning Block

a Lobby/ Waiting Lounge  10 Person 35  1 35 

b Reception Counter  1 Person 4  1 4 

With Audio 
Visual
c Tourist Information Centre, 20 Person 30  1 30  Presentaion

d Library 15 Person 60  1 60 

Museum to ref lect the socio-cultural

e  status of  Nepal 20 Person 100  1 100 

f  Control Off ice  1 Person 10  1 10 

g Toilet for Visitors and Staff  2 person 4.5  4 18  2 in each f loor 
h Conference Hall 2 100Person 150  1 150 

i Conference Hall 1  50 person 75  1 75 

 j Toilet for Conference Hall User  10 Person 4.5  10 45  including Urinals 
k Curio Shop 20  1 20 
k Cyber Café  10 Person 20  1 20 
250
4 Main Conference Hall Person 400 1 400
a Lobby/ Foyer  50 Person 40  1 40 

b Rest Rooms  12 Person 4.5  12 54  including Urinals 

5 Recreational Block
a Squash hall 2 person 60  1 60 

b Gymnasium 25 Person 75  1 75 

c Aerobics  10 Person 40  1 40 

d Meditation 20 Person 30  1 30 

e Barber/ Parlor 2 person 25  1 25 

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f  Coffee/ Tea shop  8 Person 20  1 20 

g Spa 1 Person 10  1 10 

h Sauna 1 Person 10  1 10 

i Snooker  4 Person 18  4 72

For Swimming
 j Locker room /Change  30 person 30  1 30  pool user too 
For Swimming
k Rest Room 6 Person 4.5  4 18  pool user too 
Common Accommodation Unit 20 Rooms 40 20 800
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1-2 user/room
7 Individual Accommodation Unit
Up to 8  with out
a Group User Block User  75  5 375  Kitchenette 
with out
b Couple/ Honeymoon Block 2+ 1 Chil d  40 20 800  Kitch enette 

c Family Block 4-5 User  80  8 640  With Kitchenette 

8 Staff Accommodation and Back House
a Staff  Kitchen 15 User  15  1 15 

b Staff  Dining 15 User 20  1 20 

c Wash Area 5  1 5 

d Site Storage  30  1 30 

e Accommodation Units  10 rooms  15  10 150 

f  Rest rooms 2 person 4.5 2 9 

g Family Suite for High level staff  2 Family 80 2 160 

h Generator and Battery Room 30  1 30 

9 Guard House 4 Person 10 4 40

Total Area 5868 

10% Circulation Space  586.8 

3 % Structural Envelope Ground 
Coverage  175 

Total Proposed Built- Up Area 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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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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