No items found.
.avif)
City
Amman, Jordan
Cost
USD 350 Million
Year
2011
Client
Abdali Investment & Development PSC
Area
237,000 m2 built-up - 26,000 m2 land
Project Brief
<p>Scope: 32 residential buildings, ~500 apartments - Lebanon's largest private housing development at time of completion. Located 30 minutes from Beirut. Gated community with country club, retail, and coffee shops. Complete self-sufficient infrastructure (power, water, telecom).<br>Challenge: Pioneer Lebanon's first true gated community model while creating self-sustaining development independent of unreliable municipal services. Maximize sea views across 500-unit development on sloped site. Develop programmatic mix that enables residents to stay within community for daily needs - crucial for gated community viability.<br>Approach: Master plan integrates residential with country club, retail, and F&B programming to create self-sustaining community rather than bedroom development. Urban design strategy leverages sloped topography - optimizing sea views across building placement and unit orientations. Engineered independent infrastructure systems (power generation, water supply, telecommunications) ensure continuous service regardless of municipal utility reliability - critical competitive advantage in Lebanon context.<br>Status: Completed</p>
Cost
USD 50 million
Area
90,000m2 land
160,000m2 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
Doha, Lebanon
Client
UIG
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.
Our Response
Laceco responded to these objectives by developing a master plan that included different programmatic uses, such as the country club, retail, coffee-shops, to create a self- sustaining community.
Let's build your next project
Ready to get to work? Fill in the form below or email hello@laceco.me
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.