BATOUTZ PORT (2003- )
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TOURIST PROPOSAL FOR BATOUZ. Batoutz is situated 50 minutes by car from Taipei, near Keelung, the city´s traditional port. The size of ther port, its proximity to the capital and its lanscape all facillitate it conversion into an international tourist destination while conserving its fishing activity. For this to be achieved, what is needed in addition to quality tourist provision based on cuisine, are facilities geared towards a Conventions and Trade, Culture and shopping tourism that will provide the impetus for the desired shift in scale. We propose: A. Public facilities required: Fish market, seafood restaurant and traditional shops B. Proposed private facilities: 1. A hotel with panoramic views at the entrance of the port 2. Hotel-Spa-Convention Centre, reconstructin the mountain overlooking the port. 3. A high-tech shopping mall and multi-screen cinemas 4. A traditional open-air market 5. An artificial sports complex C. Public facilities in develpment: The Ocean Museum and the park LINEAR PATTERNS: We propose to establish a vibration between the land and the sea. To establish dozens of possible coastlines. To define linear patterns that order the growth and the implantation of functions in the port on the basis of a principle of mobility. Systems scaled to the dimensions of the user (ships, buses, automobiles, crowds, people, bicycles)that will order the implantation of buildings, the positionintg of materials, the definition of the lighting... A system open to the design of these that respects the force fields of the place. PHOTOVOLTAIC PERGOLA The space between buildings is traversed by a pergola convered with photovoltaic panel that will serve to generate all of the energy consumed by the public space of the port. The pergola acts like a tree whose leaves (the panels) collect sunligth, send energy down to the base (the roots) and produce a fruit that is electric light. The latest advanced systems allow electricity to be sent directly to the network, from which the energy needed at any given moment is taken, thus avoiding the use of environmentally harmful batteries. QUARRY In the central part of Batoutz, opposite the entrance to the harbour, there is a quarry from which stone was extrated to build the port. We propose to reconstruct this and use it as the site for a Hotel, Spa and Convention Centre, to create an attractor for professional-sector tourism. The interior volume will be reconstructed in keeping with the logic of the mountain´s own strata. The facade will have glazed zones following the pattern of the rock formation to which it belongs. BATOUTZ INTERNATIONAL TOURIST DESTINATION The proposal is based on the conviction that the successful development of tourist activity consists in making available a wide range of leisure uses throughout the course of the day, and these will have to be complemented by a sufficient level of accommodation to ensure a continuity of demand for the catering establishments and shops. Because the proposal is centred exclusively on the port area, it contains a limited development of the hotel capacity, which will need to be increased by means of interventions in the immediate periphery of the port. Once both phases have been concluded, the total accommodation will be not less than 10,000 m2, of which at least 70% will be occupied by hotels. Port Batoutz as a component of the network of coastal tourist nodes: The proposal is conceived from the conviction that Batoutz is the hub of a network of tourist destinations that extends all along the coast of Taiwan. These nodes will have to contain amenities that will satisfy the leisure needs of their own residents and at the same time complement the others, so that each of these, including Batoutz, will be able to add to its own extensive range of services and activities those provided by other destinations and by the capital of Taipei itself, places which tourists are likely to visit in the course of their stay. The provision thus configured will be sufficient to satisfy the spectrum of leisure needs for a minimum of 7 days, although the length of stay could be extended or the stay repeated in successive years if complemented with visits to other destinations. The loss of consumer revenue represented by the ‘loss’ of tourists making excursions outside of Batoutz would be compensated by the visit of others tourists staying in other resorts in the network.
If success in tourism is related to the quantity, variety and quality of the leisure provision, what is needed is a programme of uses that can satisfy the multiple demands that may be made by tourists, in such a way as to offer a range of functional alternatives all through the day. The organization of these sequences is known as ‘the architecture of time’. The considerable size of Port Batoutz and its area of influence allows us to anticipate a wide spectrum of leisure provision that - although constituting no more than the embryo of what will be available once the subsequent phases of the project are implemented - will keep the visitor active, with at least 35 functions from 9 in the morning on, hours and with at least 10 functions during the night. These functions will cover all the needs for the use of time, enabling us to assert with confidence that the project fulfils all the functional requirements necessary for a satisfactory stay. THE ORGANIZATION OF TIME IN SPACE In order to give complete satisfaction with such a range of provision and meet the objective of satisfying the desires of the tourist, what is needed a spatial organization of uses that guarantee the functional efficiency of the system as a whole. To do this, it is essential to plan a distribution of facilities that takes due account of the potential and the limitations of each space. In the project that we are proposing we have organized 11 different spaces (Cultural Plaza, Fishing Area, Artificial Mountain, Shopping Centre, Traditional Open-air Market, Sports Centre, Museums, Leisure Area, Boat Access, Hotel Tower and Excursions), most of which contain a variety of establishments and options. The set of typical uses is estimated at 40 within the area, complemented by 5 proposed excursions: together these constitute one of the most important concentrations of tourist leisure provision in Taiwan. J.M. Iribas, Expert in international tourism
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New Taiwan by design / Competition project 2003 Date of building construction: 2005- CONSULTORS: Tourism: Jose Miguel Iribas. |
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