Eco-Resorts

Zbigniew Bromberek

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781138503656
• eBook ISBN: 9781136440915
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Eco-Resorts is a design guide for low impact, environmentally friendly tourist resorts in the tropics. The book is the first to offer architects practical, detailed guidance in developing resort buildings that work with a tropical climate and
meet the needs and expectations of the client and building inhabitants.

The book includes both architectural design and material solutions, supported by theoretical principles, to present a
sustainable approach to resort design. It demonstrates that tropical resort buildings do not necessarily require large
energy input, in compliance with green building standards. Case studies show how principles of sustainable design
have been successfully applied in tropical environments.

* Written by an industry insider with practical design experience, knowledge and expertise.
* Demonstrates design practices related to site planning and layout, and re-assesses best practices for a tropical
environment, allowing architects to apply design principles to their own projects.
* Includes international case studies from several countries to illustrate best practice from a variety of tropical climate destinations around the world.

Z (Zbigniew) Bromberek, PhD, is an architect educated and registered in Poland, and postgraduate-educated and residing in Australia. Z has been practising and teaching architecture for nearly 30 years. He has been involved and associated with various educational institutions and professional organizations in a number of countries around the world. Before the current appointment as Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Tasmania, Z spent three years as Lecturer in Environmental Design at the University of Queensland, and two years as Guest Professor in Architectural Design in Nanjing, PR China. He was also the President of the Architectural Science Association ANZAScA for three consecutive terms in 2000–05. Z's major research interests include design–environment interaction, low-impact architecture and re-integration of architecture as an expression of a multi-disciplinary approach to design.

Part One Eco-Tourism and the Tropics

The world’s tropical zone extends to approximately 4000 km north and 3500 km south of the equator and covers one third of the Earth’s land surface: in total it takes in over 50 million square kilometres. Globally, the tropical lands have a coastline of over 60 000 kilometres attracting millions of tourists every year with these numbers rising dramatically in recent times. Consequently, more tourist and recreational infrastructure in the tropics is increasingly needed and tourist resorts have started moving also into previously undeveloped areas.

Meanwhile, up until the 1980s, the emphasis of any tourist development in the tropics was on primary resources, suc...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About this book
• Acknowledgements
• Figures
• Eco-Tourism and the Tropics
• A Question of Sustainability
• Tropical Tourism and Tropical Eco-Tourism: Scale and Trends
• Delineation of the Tropics
• Operational Issues in Eco-Friendly Resort Design
• Eco-Tourism Rating Schemes
• Indoor Environment Control in the Tropics
• A Question of Comfort
• Thermal Environment Control
• Visual Environment Control
• Acoustic Environment Control
• Control of Smell, Touch and Psychological Factors in Environmental Perceptions
• Tropical Eco-Resort Design
• A Question of Environmental Response
• Location
• Site Planning
• Constructional Design
• Building Design
• Functional Programmes
• Room Design
• Resort Operation in Planning and Design Objectives
• Case Studies
• A Question of Practicality
• Jean-Michel Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort
• Are Tamanu Beach Hotel and Muri Beach Hideaway
• Sheraton Moorea Lagoon Resort & Spa
• Bora Bora Nui Resort & Spa
• Mezzanine
• Balamku Inn on the Beach
• Kailuumcito the Camptel
• Hacienda Chickén Resort
• reference
• Index