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Situated at the northern tip of the Red Sea, Saraya Aqaba Resort is a mixed-use hospitality development blending residences, hotels, and entertainment. The resort merges the charm of an old Arab city with modern world-class tourism. Saudi Oger aimed to create an attractive Aqaba destination by integrating diverse functions into a cohesive master plan, featuring artificial waterscapes to enrich the user experience and elevate the site’s appeal.
Masterplanning
Urban Planning
Architecture And Engineering
Interior Design
Landscape Design
Infrastructure Design
Marine Studies
Environmental Studies
Waste Management
Programming Studies(Pre-Concept To Tender Documents)
Architect Of Record
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 responded to these requirements by designing a master plan that accommodates different land uses and products covering a wide range of price points. In the master plan are neighborhoods with different architectural characters that reflect the diverse uses of the development such as luxury villas, regular villas, service apartments, hotels and bungalows. The entire development wraps around an artificial lagoon that becomes the focal point. Laceco engineered the 1.5km man- made breakwater, ensured that the infrastructure serving the development was aligned with the standards adopted in world class resorts and integrated unique entertainment features like the Wild Wadi Aqaba waterpark.
