TERRI-TOUR:
Rethinking tourism for a sustainable, regional approach

Researching visitor dispersal

'Highlighting the Hinterlands' is a research on the inland towns and farmland north of Great Ocean Road, a popular touristic destination in Victoria. It looks at the impact of renovations and small constructions on visitors and local communities. This research classifies the common buildings in typologies and gives ways to transform them to attract visitors, propose economic opportunities for local inhabitants and dispersal the visitors in the land.

Establishing a farmstay

Daisy Chalet is a hobby farm in Rumuruti, a town located four hours by car from Nairobi. The owner wanted to develop it for tourism, propose activities, renovate, and extend it.

Territour helped create a new identity for the farm and rethought strategies for future architectural development by researching the area, understanding the tourism dynamic, and looking at local resources.

Daisy Chalet is now a farm stay with a website, a logo, maps, and it proposes sustainable activities. The maps are not only a great tool to help visitors understand their surroundings, but they also help promote the farm and create a network between businesses. Daisy Chalet also has a master plan for future modification on the farm, such as signage, interior addition, and extension.

Attracting visitors on regional land

The annual hut festival in Annecy invites visitors to go past the popular lake shore into the region's nature through 13 pavilions.

In the Fort of Tamier, our hut is difficult to enter, as the fort itself, but inside, it offers an intimate space.The wooden prefabricated block’s exterior is treated in burned wood to accentuate the contrast. The prefabrication of the elements simplified the construction and transport to the site, difficult to access.Small openings are taking place between some blocks to observe the surrounding nature, and a more generous one is created by the interruption of the apparatus. This window presents an overview of the valley.

People hiking in the mountain are invited to cut themselves from the world to meditate on the view over the valley.