Schoolwork Capstone Project (ARCDES9-10)MOTILE LANDSCAPE INTRODUCTION

       

 This research intends to study ways on strategizing choreographed spaces for motile experiences. According to Dr. Sally Ann Ness, anthropologist of tourism, motile experience specifies a phenomenological and semiotic experience of movement as a primordial, life producing, and life sustaining condition of being. This is in particular of eco-cultural tourism under the lens of phenomenological experiences. The discipline of phenomenology may be defined initially as the study of structures of experiences, or consciousness.  I aim to study the eco-cultural tourism offerings of barangay San Salvador Laguna due to its emerging tourism industry. Using the framework from the tourism industry as well as the phenomenological approach through motile experience, I intend to explore facilities which tackles these subjects.

In 2015, the said location opened its trail to Hulugan Falls to public. This gave way to a broader range of destinations among the province of Laguna. The budding acceptance of travel as part of the modern lifestyle and to a certain extent, the increasing urbanization of society, resulted in the need to seek different environments and activities away from cities. Associated with increasing tourism also generate potential modes of income, particularly with the communities in the rural areas.

        Growth in tourism became highly beneficial as it accelerates several developmental goals, however; it requires addressing weaknesses within the proposed site. This includes untapped tourism offerings, which needs to cultivate in order to achieve an evenhanded destination.  This paper will investigate design ethnography of tramping in developing facilities for a successful tourism destination.

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

The growing number of people travelling domestically shows an increasing demand for the experience of the natural environment and experience away from the city. In effect the demands 

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What is eco-cultural profile of Luisiana Laguna

What defines a Motile experience

How will we change our understanding of motility, and tourism , as a product which is beneficial in eco-cultural growth of Brgy. San Salvador?

RATIONALE

        The proponent’s inspirations for having this research roots with the appreciation of tourism and ecocultural environment of rural areas. Motility in the activity of ecocultural tourism has a profound connection to city dwellers as it offers distinctive experience and environment away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Acknowledging motility as part of an individual’s act of travel is vital for wellbeing, yet a reflective consideration of its process is believed humane.

        Like other industries, tourism if not properly manage its motile qualities may negatively affect its primordial condition of being. It overlooks its manual interaction with reconsidering the place- in which may spoil the phenomenological and semiotic experience of nature and cultural manifestations. This research contextualizes and extends phenomenologically aware approaches to our touristic experiences.

        A research on motility advocates an attention to form of perceiving premised on more than mere bodily movements. The study of motility aligned with architecture threshold between a more affective and multi-sensory experiences of space and the built environment of tourism. This type research will benefit a perceptual register to include affecs, along with haptic, kinesthetic, or other somatic sensations.

        In an honest opinion, we should make architecture in respect with its space - beyond what is practical and stylistic, it should understand our experiences and meaning making; for architecture is human, and the pleasure of travelling - is also human.

RESEARCH STUDY GOAL

        My key goal in this project is to initiate an expansion to product development in Barangay San Salvador in terms of a motile ecocultural tourism. It will update the profiling of nature and culture-based products as identified in the Tourism Development Circuit and pursue improvement of site facilities in conformity with LGU and community tourism plans.

RESEARCH STUDY OBJECTIVES

To understand the discourse of motility through Ness S.A., Pallasmaa J., Ponty M.M.,and the research of Patterson M.

Understand the environment, culture and development operations of Laguna.
goog_1917450891Relate the discourse of motility with the environment, culture and development operation of Laguna through architecture.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

Significance to Architecture

        This study contributes to the thought of architecture as an object of eco-cultural appreciation. The study may provide capacity-building programs for local government units in the formulation of local tourism plans and the development of the local tourist database.

Significance to Tourism

    The said tourist destination will promote initiatives in embracing quality standards and diversification that will strengthen the accreditation system for tourism enterprises.

Significance to Phenomenology

        This study contextualizes and extends the knowledge of motility through the application of theories to the built environment. It yields the subject with the stakeholders; which buttresses its knowledge.

SCOPE 

The scope of the research on the tourism of Luisiana Laguna involves the development of Tourism products. Tourism product refers to a combination of ecotourism resources, facilities, activities, and services resulting in an enhanced commitment to protecting the natural and cultural qualities of a destination.

The scope of the research on the topic of motility involves the discourse of perception between the retinal vision and haptic perception, the choreographic aspect of tourism in motility, and the architectural application of motility in the development of the project.

The scope of the research with architecture involves the formulation of a design system including form and materiality in developing motile architecture. The project focuses on formulating a process that supports tourism local enterprises such as Luisiana to be motile sensitive.

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LIMITATION

With tour With tourism, the study is limited with demographics that the site mostly caters and the sites's carrying capacity. It will consider the time and season in which the tour is at peak. The definition of form and materiality will only highlight its basic considerations; as it may obscure the significance of motility.

With the discourse of motility, the study is limited with somatosensory considerations. The use of medical technology in understanding the bodies will not be tackled as the study accounts touristic experiences from the point of view of lay-man tourist and locals

With the formulation of motile design system will limit the scope of architectural form from somatosensory consideration, and documented profile of the site. The study of other design systems will not be included.

ASSUMPTIONS

The project is conducted to understand the motile qualities of Luisiana as a chance to improve its tourism product in the discourse of tourism, architecture, and body perception. This project allows finding architectural interventions that are sensitive to what determines successful tourism.

The design is assumed to help appreciate the natural environment in parallel with the touristic offerings of  Luisiana. This allows a range of tourist accommodated within their demands without compromising with its eco-cultural identity. The design intervention must also benefit the community besides the tourists and the environment.