Kura Hulanda Case Study

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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


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