TARA BOUTIQUE RESORT I Kotagiri, TAMILNADU
INTRODUCTION
Tara boutique resort is a re-architectural design of an existing set up, located in hilly town of Nilgiris. Surrounded by mountain views.
EXITING BUILDING ANALYSIS:
An existing building blocks of Four single bed cottage, one twin bed cottage and large Hall and dining space above, in total of six building blocks was poorly constructed lacked the required specification, Spread out at the periphery of the site with large central space mostly was left unusable due to unmanaged site contour. Building blocks were painted with bright in appropriate colours misfitting to its context. Cottages were approached by a small verandah with bedroom and narrow toilets, lean-to roof sloping one side was not shading the wall enough. Little care was taken for roof tile from monkey and from wind.
PROSED DESIGN:
Design brief was not refurbish the existing facility retaining foundation and walls and spaces in its position, to resolve the practical issues to make it workable and to aesthetically enhance the appearance.
Master planning level an easily approachable circular pathway was constructed to connect all the cottages by creating flat central space.
Cottages were planned with sense of boundary created by respective cottages, property boundary and road on the other side, can only accessed though a dedicated door way. A private large sheltered verandah overlooking the uninterrupted mountain view is created, existing roofs are completely removed and reworked as new. Wall are reinforced and raised taller to introduce mezzanine above the exiting verandah. Verandah originally was an exterior space is now becomes part of the interior space with large bay-window serving as seating space.
Restaurant An existing large hall are converted in to indoor place area with kitchen and restaurant above party indoor and outdoor. At its core, the restaurant is an open, seamless space, interrupting the exterior view only by structural columns. The space is deliberately devoid of any interruptions, highly textured walls smoothly transition into a similarly textured ceiling.
Material pallet is highly textured with composition such as concrete, mud plastering, Pine, teak birch wood, terracotta roof tiles and random rubble stone paving, were all expressed in its natural and honest appearance.
