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Shaping Memorable
Environments
Successful resorts all have one thing in common.
or a lifetime.
What is a
resort,
anyway?
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Atmosphere Entertainment Escape CELEBRATION Memories
ATMOSPHERE
We continue to follow our passion for designing This combined experience allows us to create
active, immersive environments. These projects exciting contemporary resort environments that
are a natural fit for us. Our water park projects take advantage of the full range of possibilities.
help us to stay connected to the recreational
potential of the natural environment. Our Our ongoing resort work has also taught us
entertainment projects keep us focused on the
newest trends in the vast scope of entertain-
the importance of designing and program-
ming the whole experience: the spaces,
ENTERTAINMENT
ment technology. the site narrative, the activities and especially
the entertainment.
ESCAPE
This is the age of armchair travel, stay-cations Todays resorts face the additional challenge
and virtual tours. Its easy to escape with- of providing a heightened level of novelty,
out going anywhere at all, so why bother to excitement, pleasure and sensory delight
leave home? things that are worth leaving home for.
The simple answer is that nothing compares Yet, even in the remotest location, or in
with the real thing the textures, sights, sounds, the wildest terrain, you need to put your feet
aromas and sensations, all contributing to expe- up. With thoughtful planning, responsive
riences that are unique and direct. The need for architecture, and careful attention to detail,
authentic experiences planned or spontaneous every guest can be made to feel at home.
is as strong today as its ever been.
Fortune Bay Tourism City, Hengqin Island, China
CELEBRATION
Reconnect in a fresh SETTING
MEMORIES
Memories are built on feelings. So our job, as Today, many of our most successful projects
designers, is not just to make buildings and start with a story that we can build an environ-
spaces, but to create sensations that will stick ment around. Sometimes the story becomes an
in the mind for years. integral part of the finished project. In other in-
stances, the story recedes into the background.
One really good way of doing this is to tell In every case, its always there: a core idea that
stories. Everyone loves a good story and gives character and cohesion to the experience,
actually being part of a good story is even creating lasting memories and perhaps giving
better. Early on, we started using storylines guests their own story to tell.
as a way of developing immersive spaces.
We quickly discovered that the best stories
were those that made visitors feel like they
were part of the excitement and the romance.
MARKET AND SITE ANALYSIS MASTER PLANNING
Understanding the demand and location Roadmap to success
THIS IS HOW
sizing. With more than 40 years of industry and zones, and the relationship of individual
experience, our principals are well versed parts. Beginning as a statement of intent, the
WE DO IT
in the business aspects of resort planning. master plan evolves into a source of reference
We can work closely with our clients' for design and construction, a measuring
consultants, in reviewing statistics and stick for the completed project and, finally,
market analyses, and distilling spread- a template to guide future growth.
sheets into drawings.
The program provides the link between Storylines provide a creative foundation for Interior design helps to develop the site
the resorts requirements and the master the project, guiding development of its storyline and to establish the projects
plan. With careful consideration of visitor character, just as the master plan guides its character and identity indoors, creating
expectations, it spells out the development physical development. Stories generate the spaces that are functional, comfortable and
requirements and measures them against theme, establish the unique identity and efficient, as well as thematically connected.
the financial targets. It describes, in simple provide continuity throughout. Whether or FORRECs in-house team provides a full
numbers, all the project elements, and not the storyline is clearly evident in the final range of interior design services, from space
considers market and budget, to ensure that result, it provides the project with personality planning to construction administration.
the project is well balanced, appropriately and cohesion.
targeted and financially viable.
ATTRACTION DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN
AND SELECTION AND WAYFINDING
Whatever the nature The added wow factor Providing identity and guidance
of the project stand- Entertainment provides drawing power to Signage, graphics and exhibits dont simply
In resort design, the visitor experience Landscape architecture blends the projects In a successful project, the core design ideas
always comes first. To allow for this, identity and the site, so that the overall are evident in every aspect of the guest
buildings must conform completely to environment is cohesive and supportive. experience. FORRECs design management
the users comfort and enjoyment, never Its not just about the scenery. Landscape service ensures that the big picture concept
neglecting secondary amenities service architecture considers all of the outdoor has not been diluted by the time the finishing
areas, back-of-house functions and other spaces the connecting, gathering, open details are applied. Working on behalf of the
necessary facilities. Architectural design and circulation areas natural or man- client, our specialized knowledge allows us to
transforms the program and the master plan made, planted or paved, water-filled or expand the standard reviews and on-site
into three-dimensional reality, as a gentle furnished, designed and executed to the direction to include items and construction
extension of the existing context, or in tiniest detail. methods that are unique to resort projects and
entirely new forms of expression. attraction design. We work closely with clients,
construction managers, local design teams and
contractors anywhere in the world.
When we design a resort environment, we look at every
aspect with fresh eyes. Thats how we create unique
and unforgettable guest experiences.
Why us?
During our 40 years as a successful design As our company continues to grow, so does our
firm, weve grown, and expanded our horizons commitment to weaving our entertainment and
into many different areas, but weve never lost recreation experience together with our love
focus on what we do best: creating places for of landscape and planning. The result of this
people to gather, have fun and be entertained. magical combination is that every FORREC
project is distinctive, memorable and a lot of
fun. Just like the clients and consultants we
work with, around the world.
OPEN
Case Studies
Our calling, and our exceptional skill, is creating places where people want to spend
their precious free time. Whether its a half hour spent in a caf or an indefinite
stay in a resort community, we want people to enjoy themselves.
In resort planning and design, the goal is to create experiences that will entertain
people and keep them coming back. The following pages offer examples of how we
have met that challenge in unique and surprising ways.
Centara
grand mirage
beach resort
A Modern
Legend
At the forefront of
a new generation
of resorts that
satisfy a demand
for more immersive
experiences.
Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya is Visitors to the resort arent just hotel guests,
a 550-room, five-star luxury resort on a private theyre part of a romantic jungle legend.
beach in one of Thailands most popular tourist Once they enter the hotel grounds, guests
destinations. Among the many competing first- become participants in FORRECs re-imagined
class hotels, Centara enjoys a huge advantage: lost jungle paradise of water, tropical plants
its an active landscape a feature that sets it and adventure.
apart from other beach hotels.
R-5 Flames / Oc
R-3.1 / .2 ZULU Identity Signs
SE
A ROMANTIC STORY
The site redefined
Our original brief was to design a pool and So, as we often do, we wrote one, this time in The story goes on to tell of a mythical jungle
garden for the resort. But the project needed the form of a legend. It began: tribe that lived in perfect harmony with nature
something more to set it apart from neighbour- providing a theme that unites all elements on
ing hotels, all with the same spectacular When humans first came to the land, the the hotel grounds. This includes everything from
sloping terrain, tropical beachfront, crystal blue wisest and strongest spirits who ruled its entry gate to beachfront, including site architec-
waters and golden sunsets. Our experience told natural world appeared in a dream. Each spirit ture, landscape, recreation areas and graphics.
us the hotel needed a great story. took an animal form. One appeared as an old Intricate totems, carvings and representations
and wise turtle, another as a beautiful crane, a
R-6.1 Waves Identity Post + Panel
of mythical creatures populate
R-7 Ginger + Lime Identity
the site. In the R-9.1 Spa Cenarvee
R-8 The Club Identity Sign
third as a white tigress and the fourth took the
R-6.2 Waves Identity Island Sign hotel itself, furniture, restaurant menus, room R-9.2 Spa Room Na
Post + Panel
form of an elephant. keys and interior graphics expand the theme.
THE PROCESS THE EXPERIENCE
Many minds working together A jungle sanctuary
To bring this story to life, FORREC pulled The water garden, the resorts main feature, is a And every evening, under the gaze of the carved
together its best team of in-house architects, jungle sanctuary of shallow waterfalls, caverns animal totem, on the ceremonial platform,
landscape architects, illustrators, interior and pools interconnected by body slides, a guests take part in a torch-lighting ceremony
designers, theme designers, graphic designers meandering lazy river tube ride, a childrens that welcomes the arrival of the quiet tropical
and writers. No detail was overlooked. The play area, a sports pool and a symbolic cer- night, just as they did eons ago.
jungle water garden the most elaborate part emonial platform. A system of trails, bridges
of the design required many models, sketches and elevated walkways weaves its way over
and scaled drawings to work out its complicated and through the gardens, rockwork and water
three-dimensional geometry. features. In this lush environment, guests are
entertained and enchanted from the hotel to
the beach and through all parts of the site.
AWARDED A 2015 Travellers Choice Award,
AS VOTED BY VISITORS OF TripAdvisor.com
TripAdvisor
C8 VIDANTA
RESORT
A Fantastical
Resort
A destination resort
with a fantastic
other-worldly science
fiction backstory.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Designing a fantasy
Different moons disseminate landscape Maybe they founded a village on the site that Our solution was exciting and unusual, but
elements across the site. developed over time. Using our own mystical Cirque du Soleil and the client felt that its forms
lunar coordinates, we then created a historical and spaces were too much like a real village,
Design briefs are rarely this open-ended: just record of the fictitious village in plans and and not enough like the bold shapes and colours
a dramatic statement of an unlikely event. But sketches starting with a primitive settlement of their sketch. If the event itself was beyond
this brief was devised by our creative collabora- that grew into a trading centre, a market town human experience, then maybe the architecture
tors Cirque du Soleil, and was intended as and, finally, an international destination resort. should be, as well.
an imaginative spark, rather than a building
program. For us, as the opening line of a site Despite its imaginary origins, for the resorts We considered the possibility that the lunar event
story, it offered limitless possibilities. planning and architecture, we created a realistic had stimulated the creation of a whole new kind
building program based on attendance figures, of architecture something extraterrestrial, full
Rather than expanding the story, we let our amenity requirements and square footages for of mystery and superstition a new kind of living,
design sketches do the talking. First, we imag- all major areas. breathing architecture unlike anything on earth.
ined how early peoples might respond to strange These new forms avoided straight lines and right
land forms, left over from lunar collisions. angles; horizontal walkways became walls; walls
became gardens; gardens became bridges.
THE SUCCESS
Imagination made tangible
Retirement
Living
Redesigned
An active resort
community that
brings local
tradition to life.
BROWNWOOD
Where the real west began
A fact that is not widely known: The wild west In 1521, when the Spanish explorer Ponce de
actually started in the southeast. Eighty years Len landed on Floridas east coast barely 60
before the first vaquero crossed from Mexico miles from where Brownwood is today he
into New Mexico and fully 300 years before brought cattle, horses and a tradition that grew
the Wild West legend was born cattle to represent the very definition of the American
hunters were tending herds in central Florida. spirit: the American cowboy. This tradition
continues to this day, in locations such as the
65,000-acre Adams Ranch at nearby Fort
Pierce, Florida.
Being in Brownwood makes
us feel like were on a
permanent vacation.
a Brownwood resident
In addition to the central corral, the ranch Brownwoods streetscape replicates the faade
theme is reinforced with elements such as a architecture typical of a central Florida cowtown
grain silo and an abandoned pickup truck. An in the 19th-century. The architectural style is a
adjacent theatre takes the form of an old barn. perfect match for the standard 20-foot wide by
In the evenings, the square provides space for 60-foot deep single-story retail bays. Histori-
vendors to set up their carts. cal plaques and antique-inspired signs add to
the sense of tradition.
THE EXPERIENCE THE SUCCESS
The leisure lifestyle A retirement resort, refined
Our clients goal has been to set the stage for The projects success can be credited to the
an appealing way of life a reconstruction of seamless blending of entertainment and
the pace and texture of an earlier time. As the lifestyle: a vital retail environment combined
focal centre of the community, the town square with the attraction of round-the-clock
provides a unique and memorable identity, entertainment and programmed activities,
while providing year-round enjoyment for local wrapped in the romantic appeal of a bygone era.
residents and visitors from surrounding areas. The result is an active resort environment that
is packed every night of the week.
Blue beach
Huntsville, Canada
brownwood
Collingwood, Canada
Muskoka Wharf
Resort Black Island resort guiyang master plan
Experience
The Villages, USA Dairen, China Guiyang, China
CALGARY OLYMPIC PARK
Alberta, Canada
Gravenhurst, Canada
Nickelodeon Family
Experience Chimelong FORTUNE BAY
Hengqin Island, China
hangzhou ECo resort
Hangzhou, China
Suites Resort
Chippewas of Rama Resort Lake Buena Vista, USA CHIMELONG panyu long OCT ECO PARK RESORT
Rama, Canada term master plan Shenzhen, China
Spanish Springs Guangzhou, China
Deerhurst Inn & Main street SeNBO GREEN PARK RESORT
Country Club The Villages, USA Chimelong QINGYUAn Deqing, China
Huntsville, Canada forest resort
LAKE ROSSEAU Qingyuan, China Seven Star Tourism Resort
diamondhead resort Muskoka, Canada and Leisure Community
Mississippi, USA Chimelong DISCOVERY ISLAND China
LAKE Sumter landing Shangchuan Island, China
Echo Valley The Villages, USA TaILa Winery Resort
Resort Community CONTINENTAL HOPE RESORT Rushan, China
Toronto, Canada Wharf Village Chengdu, China
Magnetic Hill, Canada Zhou Hai Ecosystem
Community
Shanghai, China
AQUA DUNYA
Dubai, UAE
CARIBBEAN / LATIN INDIA/SOUTH
& SOUTH AMERICA DubaILAND EAST ASIA
Dubai, UAE
Aqua Resort Panama AAMBY WORLD RESORT Hyundai Sungwoo
Panama City, Panama Dubai Sports City Pune, India Leisure Town
Dubai, UAE Seoul, Korea
aquarius centara grand mirage
St. Maarten, Dutch Antilles EUTOPIA RESOrt beach resort Jaipur tourism city
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Pattaya, Thailand Jaipur, India
Blue
Turks & Caicos Lulu Island Desaru rESORT Kapuk Landing
Abu Dhabi, UAE Johor, Malaysia Jakarta, Indonesia
C8 VIDANTA RESORT
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Media Place @ Downtown @ uNiworld Koh Lan Resort
Dubai Media City Kolkata, India Koh Lan, Thailand
Morgans Point Dubai, UAE
Bermuda ENCHANTED KINGDOM Resorts world
reka resort Santa Rosa City, Philippines Sentosa, Singapore
St. kitts resort Billund, Denmark
St. Kitts Future LAND singapore tourism study
west bay Lagoon Resort Vinh Phuc, Vietnam Singapore
Doha, Qatar
HA LONG BAY Suwon Resort
yiti Resort Ha Long Bay, Vietnam Suwon, South Korea
Muscat, Oman
Taman Festival
Bali, Indonesia
The next big tourist destination
Fortune Bay Tourism City
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Parking
*in conjunction with Michael Graves & Associates (hotel architects) and DP Architects Pte. Ltd. (architect of record)
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