ABSTRACT
It is advisable to utilise local materials and local building crafts, skills and knowledge whenever possible. When designing a resort, ‘going beyond the usual’ quite oftenmeans that locality influenced features such as roof form, window frame, railing and interior detail will take a more prominent position. There is a risk of local builders, craftspeople and artisans having difficulty going beyond their ‘usual’, i.e. domestic type architecture, but this problem can be overcome with robustness of the resort design and by the designer drawing on a local vocabulary of building solutions.
