WEDGE
Development study for scalable resort units on a coastal site.
Coastal site study · Hospitality / Resort · 2025
Details
Wedge is a development study for scalable resort units on a coastal site. The study explored how a repeatable unit system could test site capacity, guest experience, landscape integration, and low-impact development potential without committing to a fixed masterplan.
The proposal organises compact resort units around shaded thresholds, private outdoor rooms, open-air showers, and cross-ventilated interiors. Landscape is used as both privacy buffer and microclimate control, allowing the system to scale while keeping each unit closely connected to shade, air, vegetation, and ocean views.
Scalable resort system
The reference scheme tests how repeatable resort units can be arranged within a coastal landscape while maintaining privacy, views, and compact site disturbance.
Repeatable unit planning
Each unit combines private access, sleeping and living areas, open-air shower, terrace, and landscape edge to support privacy, cross-ventilation, and ocean views.
Shaded threshold
Deep terraces and planted edges create a private outdoor room between the interior and ocean, supporting shade, glare control, and passive cooling.
Open-air bathing courtyard
Private courtyards extend the unit into the landscape, combining open-air bathing, planted enclosure, and filtered daylight.
Low-impact resort system
Wedge explores how compact resort units can scale through landscape rather than dominate it, using shade, privacy, cross-ventilation, and planted thresholds as the basis for coastal hospitality.