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Tobago Coastal Resort Master Plan
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Tobago Coastal Resort Master Plan
Located on the southern coast of Tobago, the project proposes the development of a resort embedded within a natural landscape characterized by white sand beaches, turquoise waters, and extensive coastal mangroves. The master plan begins with a clear premise: allowing the existing landscape to structure the development while introducing an architecture that settles lightly within the territory through a minimal and respectful intervention.
The project occupies a site of approximately 18.7 hectares and accommodates 500 guest rooms with a density of 26.7 rooms per hectare. The planning strategy deliberately limits the building footprint, ensuring that the natural landscape remains the dominant presence on the site. As a result, more than 60% of the land is preserved as mangrove and green areas, integrating the existing ecosystem as an essential component of the resort experience.
The arrangement of the buildings responds to a strategy that balances three key objectives: maximizing views toward both the sea and the mangrove landscape, preserving as much of the existing vegetation as possible, and allowing nature to permeate the architecture itself.
Guestroom buildings are primarily oriented toward the Caribbean Sea, while their rear façades open toward the mangrove landscape, offering a quieter and more contemplative experience of the site. In this area, family villas are also introduced along the edge of the mangrove, allowing guests to establish a direct relationship with this unique ecosystem.
The buildings are conceived as independent volumes that do not fully touch one another, allowing the existing vegetation to flow through the development and maintaining natural green corridors across the site. This configuration also generates a series of interior courtyards that bring the landscape into the architecture, creating shaded spaces that promote natural ventilation and establish a gradual transition between interior and exterior environments.
Between the buildings, generous outdoor areas unfold, including pools, gardens, and recreational spaces that create a gradual transition between the architecture and the beach. These intermediate spaces structure the social life of the resort and allow the buildings to dissolve progressively into the landscape. The project is conceived as a continuous spatial experience in which interior spaces extend outward, allowing the surrounding natural environment to become an integral part of the resort.
The main buildings are concentrated along the coastal strip, where views toward the Caribbean Sea become the project’s primary asset. This arrangement frees the interior of the site, preserving the mangrove as a large natural landscape that structures the master plan and defines the identity of the development.
At the center of the project, a main building acts as the heart of the resort and organizes the overall functioning of the complex. This volume separates the development into two distinct resorts: a family resort with approximately 300 rooms and an adults-only resort with 200 rooms. The building houses the main shared amenities while opening its dining and social venues toward both sides, allowing each resort to maintain its own identity while sharing key facilities. This configuration generates operational synergies within the back-of-house areas, optimizing efficiency and reducing the total service footprint.
The result is a resort conceived as a sequence of complementary landscapes — the active beachfront, the social core of the development, and the preserved mangrove environment — where architecture and nature combine to create an experience deeply connected to the landscape of Tobago.
The project occupies a site of approximately 18.7 hectares and accommodates 500 guest rooms with a density of 26.7 rooms per hectare. The planning strategy deliberately limits the building footprint, ensuring that the natural landscape remains the dominant presence on the site. As a result, more than 60% of the land is preserved as mangrove and green areas, integrating the existing ecosystem as an essential component of the resort experience.
The arrangement of the buildings responds to a strategy that balances three key objectives: maximizing views toward both the sea and the mangrove landscape, preserving as much of the existing vegetation as possible, and allowing nature to permeate the architecture itself.
Guestroom buildings are primarily oriented toward the Caribbean Sea, while their rear façades open toward the mangrove landscape, offering a quieter and more contemplative experience of the site. In this area, family villas are also introduced along the edge of the mangrove, allowing guests to establish a direct relationship with this unique ecosystem.
The buildings are conceived as independent volumes that do not fully touch one another, allowing the existing vegetation to flow through the development and maintaining natural green corridors across the site. This configuration also generates a series of interior courtyards that bring the landscape into the architecture, creating shaded spaces that promote natural ventilation and establish a gradual transition between interior and exterior environments.
Between the buildings, generous outdoor areas unfold, including pools, gardens, and recreational spaces that create a gradual transition between the architecture and the beach. These intermediate spaces structure the social life of the resort and allow the buildings to dissolve progressively into the landscape. The project is conceived as a continuous spatial experience in which interior spaces extend outward, allowing the surrounding natural environment to become an integral part of the resort.
The main buildings are concentrated along the coastal strip, where views toward the Caribbean Sea become the project’s primary asset. This arrangement frees the interior of the site, preserving the mangrove as a large natural landscape that structures the master plan and defines the identity of the development.
At the center of the project, a main building acts as the heart of the resort and organizes the overall functioning of the complex. This volume separates the development into two distinct resorts: a family resort with approximately 300 rooms and an adults-only resort with 200 rooms. The building houses the main shared amenities while opening its dining and social venues toward both sides, allowing each resort to maintain its own identity while sharing key facilities. This configuration generates operational synergies within the back-of-house areas, optimizing efficiency and reducing the total service footprint.
The result is a resort conceived as a sequence of complementary landscapes — the active beachfront, the social core of the development, and the preserved mangrove environment — where architecture and nature combine to create an experience deeply connected to the landscape of Tobago.
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