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Item A mountain resort hotel(1956-05) Caudle, Robert M.Item A resort motel(1956-05) Durham, BerylItem A resort motor hotel(1959-05) Troy, Robert D.The American people of today have more leisure time than ever before. We have more time for travel and recreation. Many businesses are built based upon the use of that leisure time. When a vacation is at hand, the average person wants to leave his everyday surroundings and go someplace to relax or just live under completely changed conditions. This feeling has produced a great boom in resort possibilities. Also, since the war there has been a vast increase in the production of cars. Naturally, with this increase in production, the use of the car has become greater. By comparison of time, distances have become shorter. Highway facilities have been improved. Weekend vacations have become popular. The people are constantly on the go. The preceding thoughts and facts have produced a greatly expanded business. That business is resort facilities.Item A ski and summer resort lodge for Snowbird, Utah(Texas Tech University, 1981-12) Brewer, M.E.Skiing is one of the fastest growing recreational sports in the country. Many ski villages are plagued with continual overcrowding conditions. New ski lodging and service facilities are needed at most of the major ski areas. The growing ski village of Snowbird, Utah, is one of the sites in demand for more ski accommodations. With its excellent skiing conditions of more than 500 inches of powder snow and its 3,100 feet of vertical rise, Snowbird is a superb site for the expansion of new lodging facilities.Item Item An airline resort for Caribbean(1968-01) Barnes, MikeItem An airline resort for the Caribbean(1968-05) Barnes, Michael T.Item Item Item Kenny Wood Park(Texas Tech University, 1975-05) Brady, Michael GeneThe function of the resort is to meet man's needs during his interaction with the area. This interaction should be an exciting blend of man's recreational activity and nature. It should be expressed in interior and exterior spaces, within the relationships of these spaces to one another, and relationships to the area.Item Program for a resort hotel/marina(Texas Tech University, 1986-08) Aufill, Steven C.Transition, as related to us by Webster, isthe "movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another." The human individual continually experiences countless different types of transitions from before birth until after death. Of all the varied types of transitions, physical transitions, the movements from one physical environment to another, are the most easily recognizable. The individual, in his daily routine, makes many physical transitions; from dark to light, from bed to shower, from home to work place, from outside to inside, etc. In any case, physical transitions should be controlled by a suitable "transitory vehicle." A controlling vehicle reduces the chance of traumatic effects occurring during the transition. When moving from the environment of one's penthouse apartment to the environment of the street, for example, failure to use a proper transitory vehicle (stairs or elevator) could prove to instigate severe physiological transitions. In order for the transitory vehicle to function properly, it must relate to both environments simultaneously. Architecture may function as a physical transitory vehicle. One passes through a gate when transitioning from street to garden. A doorway provides the vehicle for movement from outside inside or from public to private. An airport acts as the vehicle relating two-dimensional earthbound travel to commuting within air and its three dimensions. Architecture, as a transitory vehicle controlling the transition from one environment and its activities to another, should relate to both environments simultaneously and in a way proportional to the importance of each environment and its activities. An example of architecture used well as a transitory vehicle is the TWA Building in New York designed by Eero Saarinen. The metaphor of flight projected by the structure links the building, which, by current building practices, must be anchored to the ground, to the sky where the activity of flight takes place. The curving surfaces of the building also help reinforce the idea of movement. In all, the building provides the user with a smooth transition from relatively slow, horizontal movement at ground level to faster movement within the air. To explore this thesis, the proposed project is a resort hotel/marina. The design will center on transitions as large in scope as from land to water and as small as from guest room to balcony. Emphasis will be on creating an architectiire which sensitively aids the user in transitioning from one environment and its activities to another.Item The resort hotel(1960-05) Crumbley, Don C.