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<p>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.<br>Challenge: Integrate diverse and substantial programmatic functions into coherent master plan for Aqaba tourism destination - balancing traditional Arab city charm with modern world-class resort refinement. Accommodate wide price point range across multiple product types (luxury to service apartments) while maintaining design quality and cohesive character. Engineer artificial waterscape as development focal point.<br>Approach: Master plan organizes neighborhoods with distinct architectural characters reflecting diverse uses and price points - from luxury villas through service apartments. Entire development wraps around 1.5km artificial lagoon serving as focal point and experiential anchor. Engineered man-made breakwater enables lagoon creation. Infrastructure designed to international resort standards. Integrated unique entertainment programming including Wild Wadi waterpark. Architectural strategy references traditional Arab urbanism while delivering contemporary resort functionality.<br>Status: Completed</p>
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
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.
