Kura Hulanda Case Study

Kura Hulanda Willemstad, Curacao

Case Study by Diana Lu + Adam Paul Amrhein

Site Context

Site Context

Curacao

Willemstad

Site Context

Curacao

Curacao

Site Context

Otrobanda

Curacao Otrobanda

Site Context

Kura Hulanda

Design + Images

Design + Images

Casino

Design + Images

Pools

Design + Images

Conference CenterÂ

Design + Images

Village Square

Design + Images

Museum + Sculpture Garden

Design + Images

Institute + Dialysis Center

Design + Images

Rooms + Restaurants

Design + Images

Design + Images

Ultimately becomes preservation village

Realizes history, decides to renovate Buys and rehabilitates houses

Acquire more buildings, builds conference center and hotel.

Opens museum to tell the story of the African slave trade in 1999

Development + Timeline

Key stakeholder: Jacob Gelt Dekker Visits Curacao, falls in love in 1998

Ultimately becomes preservation village

Realizes history, decides to renovate Buys and rehabilitates houses

Acquire more buildings, builds conference center and hotel.

Opens museum to tell the story of the African slave trade in 1999

Development + Timeline

Key stakeholder: Jacob Gelt Dekker Visits Curacao, falls in love in 1998

Ultimately becomes preservation village

Realizes history, decides to renovate Buys and rehabilitates houses

Acquire more buildings, builds conference center and hotel.

Opens museum to tell the story of the African slave trade in 1999

Development + Timeline

Key stakeholder: Jacob Gelt Dekker Visits Curacao, falls in love in 1998

Ultimately becomes preservation village

Realizes history, decides to renovate Buys and rehabilitates houses

Acquire more buildings, builds conference center and hotel.

Opens museum to tell the story of the African slave trade in 1999

Development + Timeline

Key stakeholder: Jacob Gelt Dekker Visits Curacao, falls in love in 1998

Ultimately becomes preservation village

Realizes history, decides to renovate Buys and rehabilitates houses

Acquire more buildings, builds conference center and hotel.

Opens museum to tell the story of the African slave trade in 1999

Development + Timeline

Key stakeholder: Jacob Gelt Dekker Visits Curacao, falls in love in 1998

Ultimately becomes preservation village

Realizes history, decides to renovate Buys and rehabilitates houses

Acquire more buildings, builds conference center and hotel.

Opens museum to tell the story of the African slave trade in 1999

Development + Timeline

Key stakeholder: Jacob Gelt Dekker Visits Curacao, falls in love in 1998

Imageability

Tourist desitination Changed image of city Historic context and experience

Imageability

Tourist desitination Changed image of city Historic context and experience

Imageability

Tourist desitination Changed image of city Historic context and experience

Imageability

Tourist desitination Changed image of city Historic context and experience

Imageability

Tourist desitination Changed image of city Historic context and experience

Affordability Disconnect Interpretation

Environmental Adaptive reuse

Economic

Spillover effect Self-sustaining soon

Sustainability

Social

1) 2)

4.)

Lessons

3)

1) High-end

resort development can integrate with existing urban fabric.

2)

4.)

Lessons

3)

1) High-end

resort development can integrate with existing urban fabric.

2) Development

can be used to preserve culture and history, even if not pretty.

4.)

Lessons

3)

1) High-end

resort development can integrate with existing urban fabric.

2) Development

can be used to preserve culture and history, even if not pretty.

3) Authenticity 4.)

Lessons

can compete with novelty in the international tourist market.

1) High-end

resort development can integrate with existing urban fabric.

2) Development

can be used to preserve culture and history, even if not pretty.

3) Authenticity

can compete with novelty in the international tourist market.

4.) Community

Lessons

and resort development need not be antithetical.

1) High-end

resort development can integrate with existing urban fabric.

2) Development

can be used to preserve culture and history, even if not pretty.

3) Authenticity

can compete with novelty in the international tourist market.

4.) Community

Lessons

and resort development need not be antithetical.

Intro

http://www.kurahulanda.com/en/photo-galleries

maps.google.com

Site Context

Design + Images

www.kurahulanda.com/en/hotel/hotel-map

http://www.kurahulanda.com/en/photo-galleries

http://www.curacao-dialysis.com/english/01.html

http://www.prweb.com/releases/10-10-10/hotel_deals/prweb4595414.htm

http://www.kurahulanda.com/en/hotel/meeting-rooms-a-business-center

http://www.destination360.com/caribbean/curacao/images/s/kura-hulanda-museum.jpg, http://www.

destination360.com/caribbean/curacao/kura-hulanda-museum

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.gadling.com/media/2010/10/main.jpg

Development + Timeline

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unstoppable/42832976/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://cdn.radionetherlands.nl/data/files/imagecache/must_carry/images/lead/dekker_0.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/308896491_69541d2c97_z.jpg http://stefensylviaopcuracao.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2010/04/27/huizen_otrabanda15.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5464864570_e83c439d8f_b_d.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4383514759_3b8ed638ba_z.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/38936064_f4ad148b28_b.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BfYp_vjAOAs/SlPL3QcPAUI/AAAAAAAABbM/3rrBmiRWL54/s400/curacao.jpg http://img4.coastalliving.com/i/2009/05/curacao-6-l.jpg?400:400

Imageability

Sustainability

Sources

http://www.olsvik.info/Images%206/Slave-Museum.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5013/5464858106_9f51518741_b.jpg

http://www.curacaotraveldeals.com/wp-content/gallery/hotel-kura-hulanda/kura-hulanda-hotel-curacao-2.

gif

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/2764928541_e2495de7e0_o.jpg

http://stefensylviaopcuracao.web-log.nl/photos/otrabanda/huizen_otrabanda20.jpg