Architectural Design

Designing a Holiday Resort | Architecture and Design

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7 Key Design Considerations for a Perfect Holiday Resort

P.S: Article updated on 25th March 2025

When people go on holiday, they want to relax, enjoy, and escape from their busy lives. A holiday resort should feel like a dream destination—a place where guests feel comfortable, welcomed, and surrounded by beauty.

As an architect, I believe that a well-designed resort is the key to a great holiday experience. Good planning can make all the difference between a resort that people love and one they never return to.

Let’s talk about the seven most important things that make a holiday resort successful.

The success of every resort is influenced by the following seven factors:
  1. Location: The Heart of the Resort
  2. First Impressions Matter: The Look of the Resort
  3. Beautiful Landscaping: Nature Makes Everything Better
  4. Easy Movement: Guests Shouldn’t Get Lost!
  5. Quick and Friendly Service: How Design Helps Staff Work Better
  6. Cleanliness and Maintenance: A Resort Should Always Feel Fresh
  7. Good Food: A Resort Experience Isn’t Complete Without It

Let us move on with the discussion on some of the most important factors that are necessary to be considered while designing a “Holiday Resort”.

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Approach to Architectural Drawing

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Introduction to the Approach to Architectural Drawing

We are beginning with a new tab on “Architectural Drawing”. We will cover a wide range of topics regarding Architectural Drawing which will help Architecture and Engineering students to achieve excellence in Drawing.

Let’s begin with our lessons on Architectural Drawing.

Art in the past was an intellectual, scientific and poetic discipline. Draftsmanship was of primary importance, though drawing has been playing a service role to painting, sculpture and architecture.

Contemporary art/Architecture has to return to classical roots for redefinition for standards and precepts. Follow that route and you will learn soon enough.

Architectural Drawing
Architectural Drawing

The importance of spending months on the fundamentals of drawing may not be obvious immediately. Repetition unavoidably is the key. Repeated acts of seeing, selecting, and thinking through the physical marking on paper are indispensable to growth.

Reading about Architecture or talking about drawing will not do what pencil in hand will do. Drawing takes repeated effort. But at the outset, a great deal of technical discipline/drawing etiquette must usually come before creative leaps.

Distractions to be avoided

  1. Feel blocked/frustrated
  2. Copying – Need to develop comprehension beyond copying.
  3. Do not latch on the flashy techniques too early in your career – You may lose a great deal of integrity and individualism in expression.

Mapping of Visual Parameters | Architectural Drawing

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Understanding the concept of Mapping of Visual Parameters

The near/far fluctuations of the limits of our vision is the aim of this exercise which attempts to plot such parameters in a simple diagrammatic form.

  • Find a central open space in a locality
  • Draw the surrounding buildings/objects in PLAN
  • Stand in the middle and rotate on the spot. By rotating on the spot draw a line which describes at eye level; the shape of the limits of your all round field of vision.
  • Thus we create a spatial bubble.
Mapping of Visual Parameters
Mapping of Visual Parameters

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Conceptual Space | Architectural Drawing and Design

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Conceptual Space | Perception of Space

The design of space is first a mental concept and any resultant response is primarily experienced through visual perception.

A form oriented approach in which space can be literally ignored – or a waste product after design is still prevalent in architectural circles.

From a form dominated perception to a renewed awareness of space as dynamic – vase/ faces experiment tangible substance.

The spaces between buildings is as important as the spaces which contain them.

Conceptual Space | Perceptual Space
Source: Ar. Darwish  | Conceptual Space | Perceptual Space

 

Spatial Diagramming (Interior Spaces)

To create in a diagram and thinking attitude which has transported your minds eye through an interior space. It sharpens the mind. This is not a figurative drawing but a subjective diagram. The diagram might emerge elliptical due to the eyes perceptual window.

A) Draw lines from a field of vision different points – Select and connect various points in a room.

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