Architecture Contribution to the Tourist Landscape Experience

The outcome of this research was the design of the Kaikoura Peninsula Museum Hotel. The hotel is located on the Kaikoura Peninsula walkway, in the South Island of New Zealand. The design intends to provide tourists with a more profound experience of the New Zealand landscape. In particular, Kaikoura, which recently suffered a natural disaster, is intentionally selected to help tourists to explore the new landscape and allow them to experience the relationship between themselves and the landscape in an architectural way. The Kaikoura Peninsula Museum Hotel embodies the original contributions to knowledge made by this research; meanwhile, it also contributes to knowledge in the field of tourist psychology, tourist behaviours and needs, through the tourist experience and awareness of a landscape architecture.  

This research project has exploited framing, linear sequence narrative and landform architecture concepts drawn from the existing works. The study and employment of such landscape strategies and methods in the project aided the positive perception of a landscape which has recently experienced natural disaster. The project allows tourists to appreciate the landscape both visually and mentally.