APPLICATION OF REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES IN DESIGN OF RESORT HOTEL; GURARA FALLS
APPLICATION OF REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES IN DESIGN OF RESORT HOTEL; GURARA FALLS
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2012-05
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SARATU, YAHAYA ABUBAKAR
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The building and construction industry is the highest active contributor to environmental
degradation the world faces today. According to literature sources, the construction industry
has been under immense pressure to review its practices for quite some time now.
Regenerative architecture is an approach developed to improve on products and services
delivered by the industry. Regenerative design is an approach that recognizes the damage that
is occurring at an environmental level and replenishing the damage by treating the natural and
built environment as equal partners, as this mutual beneficial relationship between these two
will improve the natural environment. Tourism and its related activities such as hotels and
recreational facilities can have an adverse impact on the environment, but when properly
developed and managed, these tourism products can serve as mechanisms for protecting the
natural environment. This aim can be achieved when planners and designers implement
regenerative design innovations and technologies in developing such facilities. This purpose of
this study is to illustrate the application of certain regenerative principles in the development
of resort hotels with particularly in Nigeria which is the location of study. These principles
were employed to foster the harmonization of nature with the built environment and to
perform certain functions within the building which include; passive cooling, sustainable site
design, construction material management, energy conservation and management, water
management and environmentally sensitive indoor environment quality. In application, the
features of these principles include; use of roof gardens, treatment of natural systems and built
forms as equal partners, use of renewable and recyclable building materials, use of
environmentally sensitive materials in the interiors and use of natural materials on building
facades and landscape. The research findings validated the arguments presented in the
literature review that regenerative design approach to planning and design will reduce most of
the environmental problems in an aim to actively healing the environment/ecosystem. Studies
revealed that regenerative principles were mostly applied in the foreign case studies while they
were minimally utilized in the local case studies. The study further seeks to ascertain the
appropriateness of these regenerative architectural design features to resort hotels designs.
Keywords
APPLICATION,, REGENERATIVE,, ARCHITECTURAL,, PRINCIPLES,, DESIGN,, RESORT,, HOTEL,, GURARA,, FALLS.