Broadway Malyan has unveiled plans for a bio-climatic resort that is set to act as a benchmark for sustainable hospitality design in South East Asia.
The Kalmshore Lakeside Resort and Clubhouse in Tronoh, Malyasia is a four-star hotel development that forms part of a lakeside residential community masterplan.
Aimed at the business traveller, golfers and tourists, the resort provides 250 guestrooms, a 1,200-seat banqueting hall, twelve meeting rooms and a business centre, food and beverage outlets, recreational facilities, and a club house.
Broadway Malyan’s multi-disciplinary team has undertaken the masterplanning, architecture, landscaping, graphics and branding design, along with environmental services engineers, Aurecon, and local architects, Pakatan Reka Arkitek.
The design concept takes its cue from nature, and in particular, the Sidewinder snake. Its frame and skin structure protects internal organs whilst allowing it to glide through the natural terrain, adapting to the natural topographic conditions by adjusting its bone structure accordingly. Its scaly skin protects it from the elements and keeps it cool in harsher climatic conditions.
Similarly, the building meanders through the landscape responding to topographic conditions with a permeable skin to reduce heat build up.
According to Jason Pomeroy, Director of Broadway Malyan Asia: “Allowing the guest to make an informed decision on their energy and water consumption and consequent saving plays a part, as does ensuring that in hotel facility operation, energy saving measures are employed both socially by employees and physically in the very building fabric.”
From a design perspective, Pomeroy advocates for a regionally responsive sustainable design, born out of quantitative as well as qualitative environmental and social analysis of the local ecosystems, the local people, the local culture and the local business. Such principles are employed in the Kalmshor resort.
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