KOVALAM BEACH RESORT, KERELA

-CHARLES CORREA
INTRODUCTION
Overlooking the beach is the hotel with 100 guest rooms. Here in order to
preserve the natural beauty of the site, the facilities are built into the hill
slopes.

Accommodates 300 guests, Center for massages and yoga, Water sport
etc.

The master plan does not concentrate all the facilities in one area,
but generate a large number of potential growth points, thus
allowing a more flexible response to future demands .

The restaurant, lounge, pool, main kitchen, entrance etc. are on the top
floor.



CONFIGURATION OF ROOMS
The Guest rooms come in 3 configurations-:

1. On the edge of the beach hidden
under the palm trees . They are
suites for longer stay
with cooking facilities etc.
2. Overlooking the beach there are
100 guests rooms. Here the
facilities are such that every room
gets its own private sundeck..
3. Between these two are private
detach housing units .
PLAN
The plan of
each unit is
longitudinal
An entrance
court, dressing,
living and a
sun deck.
BASIC CONCEPT



Vernacular style
-Plastered Walls

-Red Tiled Roofs

-Bamboo Chhatries

-Coir Mat Floors

-Local Handicrafts
BASIC CONCEPT
In Charles correas own
words at the deep
structural level climatic
condition , culture and its
expressions,its rights and
rituals.
In itself climate is the source
of myth:thus the
metaphysical quantities
attributed to open to sky in
the cultures of india



SUNDECK
VIEW OF SUN DECKS
OF EACH UNIT
SECTION OF
THE SUN
DECK
WHAT IS A SUNDECK ??
IT IS A DECK OR PART OF A DECK
, OF A YACHT THAT IS OPEN TO
THE SKY. IT IS ALSO A TERRACE OR
BALCONY POSITIONED TO CATCH
THE SUN.
SECTION OF THE
WHOLE
BUILDING