A Proposed Sustainable

Farm Resort in Batan,

Aklan, Western Visayas
Bulanadi, Martin Andrew P.
2010120314

INTRODUCTION

Many Tourism Development and Infrastructures

have been affected by typhoons and floods,
because of such event, some hotels and resorts
were forced to close because of inability to
handle services due to strong winds and high
flood that may cause obliterate the tourism
infrastructures, also, visitors were also alarmed
to visit tourist sites because of getting the idea
that they may not enjoy the place due to heavy
rainfall and rise of floods.

BACKGROUND OF THE
STUDY

Since tourism is one of the focus businesses in

the country, it provides great amount of job
opportunities to Filipinos across the country.
According to Census 2009 survey, 47,136 were
employed because of tourism establishments
One of the prides of Philippines is Boracay
Island, located in Aklan, Western Visayas region
of the country where it boast its fine white sand
and romantic view of sunset. There is 526,785 of
domestic and 375,935 Internartional passengers
arrived in Kalibo International airport from the
year 2012

STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM

Tourism in the Philippines is in a challenge

to create a sustainable and adaptive
infrastructure
that
can
accommodate
tourists despite the climate crisis it is facing
especially to the areas located on the most
affected region. According to NTDP,
Inconsistent tourist facilities and services is
one of the major findings of DOT that
affected the development of tourism
towards improvement.

OBJECTIVES

The main objective of the study is to create a

sustainable and adaptive resort that can cater
accommodation and leisure and at the same
time safety.
To analyze on how to extend the opportunity
of tourism in terms of expanding its service
for the improvement of economic growth of
the industry
To present an analysis that will benefit the
people in the tourism and in province of Aklan

GOALS

The goal of the study is to maintain the

process of improvement of tourism in the
Philippines by the use of creating a sustainable
tourism structure.
To promote a study that can enhance the
service of tourism in the Philippines
To enhance the system of tourism industry by
the help of architecture
To create an analysis that will lead to an
architectural solution that may aid the problem
from the cause by typhoons

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STUDY
Field of Architecture
The study will help architecture to create an innovation towards
involving different technology in the industry tourism that will
harness a new idea that will help the development of an inventive
design.
Economy
The study will contribute to the economic status of the country for
it will provide new method of conducting service from tourism
People
The study will benefit to the people not only to the tourism sector,
but also to the service of the economy for tourists of the
Philippines.
Technology
The study will benefit to present technology that may use to
resolve the problem related to the research.

STRATEGIES OF THE STUDY

The researcher will accomplish the following
to support the current study;
Case Studies
Related Studies
Data Gathering
Survey
Site Visit

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The study will concentrate on the on spaces
in tourism industry to analyze the function
that may provide new idea for an innovation
in architecture.
The proponent will conduct an analysis for
the spaces provided by tourism.
The research will also analyze the areas in
an agriculture land that may provide
potential site for tourism.

LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The study will only discuss the analysis
about the features on productivity and
issues in tourism industry.

The researcher will only consider the

factors that affect the facilities and spaces
of tourism that result to flooding and result
of inconsistency.

REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
Top Tourist destination of the Philippines as of
2014 (Resource: China Business Philippines)
Cebu 1,615,000 visitors
Camarines Sur 1,566,000 visitors
Metro Manila 1,442,000 visitors
Baguio 770,187 visitors
Davao 669,864 visitors
Boracay 649,559 visitors
Cagayan De Oro 359,867 visitors
Zambales 323,271 visitors
Bohol 313,317 visitors
Puerto Princesa 268,942 visitors

REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE

SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODED AREAS IN THE PHILIPPINES

(Resource: Volcano Tectonics Laboratory UP)

REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
Typhoons affecting Western Visayas
Many establishments such as Resorts and
Hotels were forced to close due to Typhoon
Frank last year 2008.
In the year 2014, 1,000 family have been
affected by the strongest typhoon recorded
which is Typhoon Yolanda that affects
mainly the western region area.

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
Tourism performance is inconsistent due to
typhoons that affect the services of resorts
because of structures that is unstable and
can not hold a typhoon.
Due to such phenomena, tourism demand
tends to diminish because of inefficient of
service.
Agriculture is an in demand business in the
Philippines and can be enhance by the
application of Tourism.

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
TOURISTS SURVEY

Quantitative Analysis
TOURIST SURVEY

Quantitative Analysis
RESIDENT SURVEY

Need Analysis

The municipality of Batan lacks tourism

spots due to focus of the province of Aklan
on developing tourism sites in Boracay
Island which prevent Batan to establish
tourism sites which can cater new job
opportunities and also services to improve
their area.

Need Analysis
The project may also provide opportunities
such as:
Offer more accommodation to tourists
Create more tourism site option
Provide a resilient structure which will
present tourists safety
More Tourist Activity options such as:
1. All Terrain Vehicle (ATV)
2. Zipline
3. Agricultural Restaurant

Recommendation

Flooding caused by typhoons is the main

cause why service in tourism is disturbed. In
order to improve the production, proper
irrigation system should be provided. New
technique such as Bioswales should also be
considered to progress the production and
also may provide reusability of water that
can be used for other features

Recommendation

Concentration of province of aklan to the

major site which is Boracay Island holds
opportunities for tourism development of
the province. In order to solve such
problem, more accommodation and tourist
destination for the Province of Aklan may be
a key for improvement of tourism in the
area, it will also provide another option for
tourist to go to.

RATIONALE
Agricultural Land is the main source of
livelihood in the Philippines because of its
abundant production of plants.
Tourism
and agriculture have different
function in terms of the services it provides,
but both are affected by typhoons, it is
important to think of an architectural
solution to support the productivity of both
sector.

SITE IDENTIFICATION AND

ANALYSIS
Criteria for Site Selection
The selection for the site for the proposed
farm resort is based on the criteria of the
following:
1. Location (remoteness of the site)
2. Accessibility
3. Zoning and Land Use
4. Shape and Size
5. Topography
6. Susceptibility

SITE JUSTIFICATION
SITE
A

SITE B

SITE C

SITE JUSTIFICATION

Based on the data gathered and from the evaluation of each site,
the proponent concluded that the best site for the proposed project is Site B.
The front of the site is located along the National Road of Aklan
and Batan Hills and Mountains; the rear side is fronting a fish pond,
Tinago Lake, and Batan Mountains. The right and left side
of the site has an adjacent rice fields

MACRO SETTING
Aklan is one of the provinces in the
Philippines, it is located on the western
coast of visayas, Aklan is part of the islands
of Panay. Aklan has 17 municipalities and
cities.
Aklan is also famous on its world class
tourist destination which is Boracay Island,
there are 732, 966 foreign visitors who went
to the Island on the year of 2012.

MICRO SETTING

Municipality of Batan is one of the

Agricultural Lands in Aklan, it has a
population of 30,312 as of 2010 where it
placed as seventh most populated
municipality in the Province. The adjacent
municipalities of Batan are New
Washington, Balete, and Altavas.

SITE ANALYSIS

SITE ANALYSIS

PANORAMIC VIEW
ALONG AKLAN NATIONAL ROAD

SPACE
ALLOCATION

Qualitative Analysis
Space

Classification

Adjacency

Conference Room

Private

Manager's Office

Admin. Manager's Office

Private

Reception Area

Food and Beverage Manager

Private

Main Kitchen

Marketing Manager

Private

Administrative manager

Financial Manager's Office

Private

Admin. And Financial Manager

General Manager

Private

Admin. And Financial Manager

Recreational Manager's Office

Private

Reception Area

Storage

Private

Staff room

Staff Room

Private

Pantry

Pantry

Private

Staff room

Main Kitchen

Private

Agricultural Restaurant

Laundry

Private

Janitor and Storage

Janitor's

Private

Laundry

Mechanical Room

Private

Security Office

Employee's Toilet

Private

Staff room

Lodge

Public

Cottages and Swimming Pool

Cottages

Public

Lodge and Swimming Pool

Gym

Public

Spa and Swimming Pool

Spa

Publc

Gym, Agricultural Restaurant, Swimming Pool

Bar

Public

Spa, Agricultural Restaurant, Swimming Pool

Souvenir

Public

Reception Area

Swimming Pool

Public

Cottages and Lodge

Agricultural Restaurant

Public

Main Kitchen

Common Shower

Public

Swimming Pool

Viewing Deck

Public

Agricultural Restaurant, Spa, Swimming Pool

Reception Area

Public

Recreational, Lobby,

Lobby

Public

Reception, Agricultural Restaurant, Souvenir

Function Hall

Public

Swimming pool, Viewing deck, Media Room

ARCHITECTURAL
PROGRAMMING

FUNCTIONAL ZONING

CIRCULATORY
DIAGRAM

ORGANIZATION
AL STRUCTURE

BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS

BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS

CIRCULATORY
DIAGRAM

SPACE
MATRIX

PROBLEM DIAGNOSIS

The Philippines faces a big problem in

building
sustainable
and
adaptive
infrastructures to accommodate tourists.
Specially in those places that are mostly
affected by climate change. This is a major
challenge faced by the DOT hindering them
from smooth development of tourist
facilities.

DESIGN GOALS &

OBJECTIVE
Goal
To establish a structure that can withhold
typhoon to provide security to tourists of
Aklan.
Objective
To enhance spatial program and
architectural solution to design a facility
that can help to benefit to lessen the
environmental impact of a structure.

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

Creating conducive spaces to provide

participation of people through the help of
architecture

ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT
Being

abundant

tropical

in

countries,

coconut trees are used for

different functions, it can
be

made

construction

as

finishes,
materials,

and even for furniture.

Coconut trees are very
essential to Philippines for

COCONUT TREES

it is top three agriculture

goods in the country.

STRUCTURAL CONCEPT

The figure above shows the

ferrocement concrete wall filled
with coconut fibre

a.
b.
c.
d.

Panel
Panel
Panel
Panel

wall
wall
wall
wall

of
of
of
of

ferrocement
hollow concrete block
lightweight concrete brick
red clay brick

The figure shows the procedure of putting

the coconut fibre on the wall square wood
form then filled it with concrete cement.

STRUCTURAL CONCEPT

The coconut husk is a very effective way for a cost

efficient and sustainable way of construction.
Coconut shell can be an innovation for a project for
it gives properties and specifications that can help
adapt to the climate change in the country.
MAT FOUNDATION
Mat Foundation is economical for it does not need
boring unlike pile method which causes a lot of time
and money for construction. It is also very efficient for
a soil that is overexposed to water.

SPACE CONCEPT
The proponent aims
for the focal point
to
be
the
recreational activity
area for the farm
resort for it is the
essence of creating
an
alternate
destination
to
Boracay Island

UTILITY CONCEPT

Bioswales is a technology that helps to lessen the level of

flood water, it helps to filter and make the flood water
reusable to every household. By using bioswales, various
vegetations can still be planted because it does not affect
the growth or the process of a plant.

PASSIVE COOLING

PASSIVE COOLING