T he Final Architecture Project entitled Designing Resort Hotels in NongsaBatam with the Neo-Vernacular Architecture Approach is located in Nongsa, thecity of Batam, Riau Islands province. The characteristics of local buildings in resorthotels in Batam are very important in order to preserve culture and as aneducational tool so that tourists can know the characteristics of Batam citybuildings. In fact the existing resort hotels in Batam have modern characteristics,it is difficult to find resort hotel buildings that have local characteristics so that itindirectly leaves the cultural traditions of Batam. Therefore we need thecharacteristics of local buildings in resort hotels to preserve culture and educationfor tourists in order to know the characteristics of Batam city buildings.The application of the Neo-Vernacular concept to the design of a resorthotel in Nongsa, Batam, is applied to the arrangement of building mass, the shapeof the building mass, the structure, and the material. Structuring of building massrefers to structuring the building mass on a formal building site typical of MalayRiau with the basic concept of the composition of the Malay mass of Riau as avernacular element combined with the concept of the palm springs site as a neoelement. The shape of the building mass implements the Malay Malay vernacularmass composition which is a rectangular shape that is transformed and adjustedaccording to the building's function so as to produce a neo-vernacular form. In themass structure of buildings using the structure of houses on stilts as vernacularelements, and gives the impression exposed and the use of glass structures to givea modern impression. The material used is local materials such as red bricks andwood, and modern environmentally friendly materials such as PVC and stickywood. From the combination of vernacular elements and neo elements so that thecreation of neo-vernacular architecture in the design of the resort hotel building inNongsa, the city of Batam.