Latitude 30.1518830000
Longitude 78.2671430000

The Site Is Located in Green Forest/Jungle in a regular village and a smart village, neighbouring with private family residence houses and some hotels, kindergartens/schools, spa resorts and yoga centers deeper in to the village.

Located in the hilly area, on top of a hill at 620m elevation, the site overlooks Ganga valley in South and South East and hills of moderately higher altitude – 700-800m alt. – in the North and North West.

The current Micro Market is largely of tourism hubs, luxury hotels, spa & wellness centers.

The Ouni village, where the site is the first landplot at the gateway to the village, commutes with National Highway 14 (NH-14), which connects to the NH-95. The nearest towns are Rishikesh (9-10km distance) and Narendra Nagar (5 km). The Dehradun International Airport (code DED) is around 25 km away.

The site contains 50-70% finished buildings as per project previously approved for construction:
– Block A (4 floors, ground elevation 0, rectangular)
– Block B (4 floors, ground elevation +5000, rectangular)
– Block C (4 floors, ground elevation 0, circular).

The Circular Block C has two floors built-up 50%. The Client's requirement is: nothing of what is built should be demolished, no demolition.

– Block A, B: Parametrical Facades integrated in to landscape and adjusted to weather conditions.

– Between Blocks A, B: Interconnecting structures.

– Block C Ground Floor (Level 0): 50% of the floor at North face – New Architectural solutions adjusted to landscape and weather conditions.

– Block C Floor 1: 50% of the floor at North face – New Architectural solutions.

– Block C Floor 2: Full floor – New Architectural solutions.

– Block C Floor 3: Full floor – New Architectural solutions.

– Block C: Parametrical Facades integrated in to landscape and adjusted to weather conditions.

– Between Blocks A&C, B&C: Interconnecting structures.

– Block C (2 floors half-developed, circular): approx. 350 sq.m. per floor

– Block C (2 full floors yet to be developed, circular): approx. 700 sq.m. per floor

Block C floor area to develop altogether: approx. 2,100 sq.m.

Two half-developed floors of the Block C (ground floor, first floor – 25% of the building) plus the entire upper two floors (50%) are to be designed and developed stylistically and functionally different from the already developed floors.

In the undeveloped 75% of the Block C, Floor/Facility conceptual design is expected to be:

• Split-level design concept,
• Open Concept floor planning/zoning,
• Biophilic Architectural design concept, strictly and fully adhered to.

Split-level floors are going to contain features adhering to the Biophilic Concept Principles along with the market demands and expectations from Target audiences in regards to space, function, utility, comfort and satisfaction expectations, diversity and variability, exclusivity, restricted privacy and available publicity, sustainability and principal merger with the Himalayan Nature.

More on Features and Cognitive parameters for Facility Design below.

Open Concept floor design and planning is reasoned by Flexibility, Mobility and Adaptability criteria relying upon changing weather conditions and seasoned activities/events at various periods of the calendar year.

See below the Full list of 50+ Facility Design validation criteria based on books by Bookwalter, VanderZwaag, Clarke, Khan – specifically oriented at Wellness Industry and generally dealing with universal commercial and communal building design.

In your proposal submission, suggest:

• Functional zones in thorough consideration of climatic conditions and year-round impacting weather factors,
• Characteristics and conditions of each functional zone per every climate micro-season change,
• Facilities within each functional zone along with equipments, furnishings and amenities that serve the functional purpose of a facility
• How each facility correlates with 50+ Facility dsign validation criteria (doesn't have to be absolute on all 50+ criteria, but optimal)

– Block A (4 floors / 40 ft. or 13m elevation from Ground 0, approx. 60 ft. front width, rectangular): 250 sq.m. facade surface

– Block B: similar measurements, elevation +5000 from Ground 0

– Constructive interconnection between Blocks A&B: approx. 20 ft. wide and 50 ft. tall, roughly 100 sq.m. facade surface

– Block C (circular building, elevation 40 ft or 13m, circumference of the outer circular contour – 150m): approx. 1,500…2,000 sq.m.* of facade surface.

* Effective facade surface should be made optimal to integrate with landscape and meteorological impacts (various winds and air fluids, rainfalls, lights incl. sun/moon light and other lights, acoustic waves incl. noises and other sounds, solar radiation and other heat fluids, etc). More on these in the Weather & Landscape Integration sections.

Facades will integrate the ensemble of buildings on the site with the Nature – surrounding landscape and landform as well as with the weather impacts that the site's location is set to deal with throughout the year in the climate and microclimate of the area.

The wellness center is expected to operate full year round ideally, at least 300 days in a year effectively.

It must be noted that the weather conditions change every 3 weeks throughout the year – warm and dry to hot and dry to hot and wet/humid to severe hot and fully moist, to humid and cold or even freezing cold, to humid and warm, and so on, and so forth…

The impacting factors forces shift dynamically as well: winds of various direction, intensity, temperature, humidity and contents (oxygenation and contamination levels may vary); rainfalls and all sorts of precipitations may come in and shower the buildings from atop or flood the land from a hill, or crawl in to facilities as fog and stay inside without assisted exhaustion and impact the state of facilities, sanitation, guests' comfort and even health safety.

The landscape is far from flat or simple-shaped. We'll need the exterior constructives to integrate with the surrounding landscape in order to capture benevolent natural impacts (winds directed in to ventilation shafts and further in to facilities ventilated, and the exhausted effectively, for instance) or isolate/protect from malevolent natural factors – by adjusting the external architectural shapes and forms to the landscape for sustainable resource handling and direction.

So, – for these and many other reasons – the facades should be designed as:

• Parametrical,
• Mechanical.

Exterior constructive shaping of the buildings to design as well as facades for the whole ensemble of buildings and the exterior infrastructure have to be near-ideally integrated with (a) the changing weather conditions and (b) the landscape shapes that are prone to some change as seasons shift. Think tree crowns changing shapes and density, as well as wind-resisting power or sunlight filtering capability with seasons.

In order to achieve high-level integration of the Nature and the Architecture, design exterior architectural structure that:

• captures natural fluids (winds, precipitations, heat flows and masses, moisture /vapour flows and masses, solar radiation, sun light and moon light with their direction and intensity) and directs them where they could be used for passive or minimally assisted heating/cooling, humidifying/drying, lighting/shading and, of course, passive or minimally assisted energy generation.
• positions the interiors as functional zones with their facilities in the most optimal way to create the experience of Wellness, Biophilia, Excellent Hospitality and Circular Economy concepts (see Concepts).
• Peruses the natural resources (heat, wind, water, soil, air) from the environment to sustain the entire Nature-Human integrated eco-system within Concepts pursued.

Mostly, the alternative lifestyle and wellness experience that the guests will be looking for is not as hospital-like as one may think. Wellness, Healing are not so much about treatment procedures, rather internalized experiences of going through the healing process – personally and privately and in assisted flow.

While vast majority of wellness organizations focus on treating the classical unhealthy habbits, work/life stress, eating disorders, bad sleep, etc. – we will offer alternative activities that form a healthier lifestyle patterns while the person is on their path of healing internally.

More generally speaking, we'll focus on the 6 Re's:

• Retreat (from the life, the social circle, the work, the routine, etc.)
• Recharge
• Revitalization
• Rejuvenation
• Recreation
• Restoration

The 6 Principles of Biophilia are pretty hard to implement as a whole, especially when it is about Architectural Design as well as Hospitality and Wellness servicing at their required Excellency.

When implemented cleverly and with pristine-clear comprehension, these features will make up great added value, unique to the whole targeted market in India and abroad.

WHILE Hospitality is rather a term coined for hotels and even global hotel chains, we strive for accommodating our guests with the excellent hospitality in mind.

The Challenge here though is in offering our residents an obvious alternative in the lifestyle they are used to, for very specific wellness/healing reasons.

We wouldn't want to lean towards hotel experience however fancy it could be.

We wouldn't want our guests to feel entirely catered to either, but rather inhabit the space that has so much to offer in experience beyond that hotel vibe.