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A general master plan was designed for a 26 million m² site, with 9.4 million m² detailed in the master plan. The Saudi National Guard aimed to develop a community that meets all residents’ needs, with a flexible plan allowing phased construction. The project prioritizes cost efficiency and economies of scale to ensure practical and sustainable development.
Master planning
Urban planning
Architecture and engineering
Interior design
Landscape design
Infrastructure design
Waste management
Laceco responded to the above objectives by:
Designing a consistent urban framework that nevertheless provided a diversity in the individual architectural character of buildings.
Curating a seamless pedestrian experience in a site that had a challenging topography and was exposed to dominant winds.
Anchoring the site along three platforms linked to each other by a continuous game of terraces, stairs, suspended bridges and esplanades that gently slope down the length of the development.
Conducting value engineering and cost optimization studies to preserve economic viability of the development.
Laceco developed a master plan that is fully equipped with physical, social, cultural and religious infrastructure and can accommodate tens of thousands of residents. A rationalized approach whereby basic urban units can be scaled up or down depending on client needs and availability of funding (spectrum of designed components went from units to neighborhoods to clusters to districts) was implemented. Laceco also provided advisory services to the client during the master planning and development strategy phases and provided regulatory support to the contractor for obtaining all necessary approvals from planning authorities.
