Resort design

2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We pleased to acknowledge our sincere thanks to Board of Management of PAPNI School of
Architecture for their kind encouragement in doing this Hill tourist Resort and for completing it successfully.
We grateful to them.
We convey our thanks to PROF.S. RAJAPPA, (Chairman) and Ar. VINOD RAJAPPA (Principal)
PAPNI School of Architecture for providing us necessary support and details at the right time during the
semester.
We would like to express our sincere and deep sense of gratitude to AR. JAYANTHI VINOD (Head of
the Department) for her valuable guidance, suggestions and constant encouragement paved way for the
successful completion of our project work. Our sincere thanks to our
(Design Mentors) Ar. Senthil Kumaran. Ar. HAMILTONSHAJU.
We wish to express our thanks to all Teaching and Non-teaching staff members of the Department of
Architecture who were helpful in many ways for the completion of the project.

3. Papni School of Architecture
AR8511 -ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – IV
Classes: Refer Schedule 7 Credits
Attendance is compulsory 14 hours/Week
Class in charge: Ar. Senthil Kumaran. D
Project: Hill tourist 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 center, as a meeting center, 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.
Aim:
To visualize and explore the idea of shopping experience as a stage for the city and translate into desirable
form, which includes all of the possibilities of shopping, entertainment, leisure, public spaces, experiential
multidimensional spaces, attractive and dynamic environment, freedom of choices, etc. Being in any form that
can communicate practically, pragmatic and economically achievable solutions and as together it should
reflect the idea of stage for the city

4. Objectives:
 To introduce the challenges involved in the design of projects related to diverse needs and ways of
contemporary urban life.
 To enable exploration of the above project with perception, socio- Cultural awareness and
innovation.
Design stages:
Stage 1: Case study & Site selection.
In this stage students must understand the design problem by doing the two case studies and site required
for the problem must be selectedindividually.
Stage 2: Requirements & Conceptual Design.
In this stage students should frame the spatial and area requirements. According to their spatial
requirement initial concept design should be finished.
Stage 3: Schematic drawing.
In this stage students are expected to develop their schematic drawings into detailed working plans,
sections, and elevations. With service plans necessary for the design.
Stage 4: Detailed drawing.
In this stage students are expected to develop their schematic drawings into detailed working plans,
sections, and elevations. With service plans necessary for the design.
Stage 5: 3D modelling and Presentation.
Final stage of the design process involving preparation of 3d models and renderings.
Site area: 2.5Acres
Site location: at Yelagiri, Tamilnadu. Located at Hill top
Google location: 12.554174956888602, 78.636859543809