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City
Amman, Jordan
Cost
USD 350 Million
Year
2011
Client
Abdali Investment & Development PSC
Area
237,000 m2 built-up - 26,000 m2 land
Scope
Large-scale mixed-use hospitality resort at northern Red Sea: diverse residential typologies (luxury villas, regular villas, service apartments, bungalows), hotels, entertainment facilities including Wild Wadi Aqaba waterpark, organized around 1.5km engineered artificial lagoon with man-made breakwater. Complete infrastructure to world-class resort standards.
Challenge
Integrate diverse programmatic functions into coherent master plan for Aqaba tourism destination. Balance traditional Arab city charm with modern resort refinement. Accommodate wide price range while maintaining cohesive character. Engineer artificial waterscape as development focal point.
Approach
Master plan organizes neighborhoods with distinct architectural characters. Entire development wraps around 1.5km artificial lagoon. Engineered breakwater enables lagoon. Infrastructure designed to international resort standards. Integrated entertainment including Wild Wadi waterpark. Architectural strategy references traditional Arab urbanism.
Status
Completed
Cost
USD 1.1 billion
Area
465,000m² built-up
Services provided
Urban planning and design
Landscape design
Architecture design
Interior design
Structural engineering
Mechanical engineering
Electrical engineering
Infrastructure enigneering
Solid waste management
Construction supervision
Architect of record
Location
Aqaba, Jordan
Client
Saudi Oger
Our Response
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.
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