MSc Year 02 Semester 02

THESIS DESIGN PROJECT

COFFEE ADVENTURE RETREAT

Project type Coffee adventure retreat

Site Location Digana , Kandy

Duration March 2022 – June 2022

Software Used Sketchup AutoCAD Lumion Adobe photoshop

MSC YEAR 02 SEMESTER 02

ROAST RUSH - A COFFEE ADVENTURE

Roast Rush is a coffee cultivation and production related adventure retreat facility, proposed to derive directly out of the town of new urban Digana, developed as a tourist accommodation town..

The project is an architectural attempt to provide grounds to strengthen the existing linkage of tourist hot-spots and accommodation in the area while benefiting the underprivileged local community with employment and infrastructural facility.

Agriculture and tourism hold high positions in the country’s economy. The development attempts to bring the two industries into one platform in a form of an agricultural adventure resort that serves the purposes of providing a unique and interesting option for tourists that brings in new income and in return establish better quality of life to the village community. The primary ambition of the master plan focuses on developing a coffee estate within the existing context of the village community centralized with the agricultural adventure resort, co-funded by the Mahaweli Authority and the Department of Tourism. The project aims to reconstruct the underprivileged, but agriculturally experienced community with a new focus an vision.

Coffee adventure retreat The retreat is a coexistence of a tourist accommodation center and a functioning coffee factory surrounded by a community level estate.

While the resort function offers the visitors the Basic facilitation such as accommodation, spa activities, information, meals and other activities, The factory functions in the midst of it. It allows the visitors to take part in the agricultural activities such as picking the crop and transferring them as well as the factory activities such as preparation, production, and packaging.

The targeted audience are, local villagers who maintain and run the facility and tourists that approach kandy for culture and adventure. Digana provides tourists accommodation and acts as a gateway to the far East of the country. Targeted international tourist group includes backpackers that are culturally curious, and are looking for a unique form of new experience or relaxation. .

LEVEL 01 The Facility remains hidden inside the coffee estate where there is no indication to the outside world that there is a building within the site. The only indication is the cafe residing beside the main road close to the parking space. It works as a gateway to the facility where the visitors would first have to approach. from there on the visitors are lead to the facility down the slope via the flourishing estate where they witness the growing of coffee. . The first level of the facility represents the conceptual seriousness of coffee, both visually and functionally, it is equipped with a welcoming area, a waiting lounge, a mini coffee bar and the indoor and outdoor sections of the factory. while the welcoming area and the factory reside separately, they still remain accessible to each other and the estate

LEVEL 02 The second level portrays the versatility off coffee according to the concept. the material selection, the color choices the textures and the focused functions all support the concept of versatility.

It consists both the guest use section and the employees domains separately. the visitors here are given many opportunities to experience coffee in forms of tasting, relaxing and interacting with culture. the second level houses the common dining area, indoor and outdoor tasting units, a coffee bare and a game room as well as a spa facility and a swimming pool. all these spaces allow the guests to experience the realness of Sri Lankan coffee in a more intellectual and sensual method without the raw physical authenticity the cultivation and production processes involving.

LEVEL 03 The third level reserves for the accommodation purposes where the guests would be finally arriving after the long day of labor and interaction to finally relax.

The section consists of a luggage room accessible to the employees via the promotion area. bedrooms along with private bathrooms and a fire exist. it is also accessible via the laundry in order to make it possible for the employees to provide room services.

This location of the site consists of the best viewpoint where the guests can experience the rather magnificent view to its full potential on the provided balconies,, where the experience can be described as ‘blissful’