Design principles for the development of coastal tourist settlements

The following research is an effort to develop design principles for coastal tourist settlements depending on the relationship between the shape of a site, to its location and to its orientation. For that purpose, we use a figurative tourist complex as a comparison tool, covering typical cases of tourist development in coastal zones. The analysis is based on the principles of passive bioclimatic design using computer simulation processes. More specifically, by combining the ACAD software with the A-Lisp programming software, we produced the software called ROUTINA BIOCLIMA which dismantles and analyzes the digitized road network. The study, by considering the orientation of the streets as the primary factor, comes up with estimations about the quality of the built environment and the daylight distribution, in addition to conclusions about design decisions for the configuration of the touristic settlement in relation to the geomorphology of the soil, the duration and the intensity of local winds, the humidity and the amount of rainfall in the area in which it belongs to, as well as its relation to the waterfront.