JABAL KHANDAMA DEVELOPMENT

The design initiative was inspired by the dramatic silhouette of the horizon of Mount Khandamah’s basaltic profile line, turning the natural terrain into a manmade formation of building blocks. The planning phase was generated by a proposed road network providing access to each of the 45 plots. The challenge laid ahead was to reduce the excavation works of the basaltic base to its minimum, and hence the road network was designed to gradually ascend to 50 m elevation above ground level. The outcome was a master plan that reacted inconsonance with the natural terrain.