Cagbalete Sand Clusters Hotel, Mauban
Cagbalete Sand Clusters, Philippines Hotel, Spa Architecture Development, Images
Cagbalete Sand Clusters in Mauban
15 Sep 2021
Architecture: Carlo Calma Consultancy Inc.
Location: Mauban, Philippines
Cagbalete Sand Clusters Hotel
Cagbalete Sand Clusters creates a new sustainable typology for eco-tourism, one that uplifts the local culture, which revolves around farming and fishery.
Desired to create a community-building and nurturing ecology for its surroundings, Cagbalete Sand Clusters is a dynamic space for both its inhabitants and visiting tourists. This intermingling is vital to the Filipinos as an archipelagic country of 7,641 islands, each with its own distinct cultural and natural identities.
The design explores the inherent values of locality and sense of place in this project, but through more ethical means of development. The project integrates the programmatic and cultural context of its locale into the architecture, which is essentially a unit system, pre-fabricated set of parts that can grow horizontally or vertically.
The client wanted to create farm lots in a 3.8-hectare property in Cagbalete Island, Quezon province. With a radial site development, a hyperbolic cluster unit system is created that was largely inspired by corals, given the location’s rich marine life and biodiversity.
The resulting structure is a mixed-use development: a private family home and a farm-to-table restaurant that focuses on the use of endemic plant species and seasonal m...
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