AL SHAFA RESORT
Aerial View - Al Shafa Resort
Al Shafa Resort, Tayef, Saudi Arabia is composed of an 12,000 m2 Luxurious Resort housing a 60-bed hotel, a wide range of villa typologies, and a generous landscape of amenities and sport facilities. All intended to cater for a long stay journey of health and wellbeing therapies.
Aside from the pedestrian friendly environment, the site is entirely accessible via golf carts, which facilitate movement in an otherwise car-free environment where alleyways are adorned with palm trees and local desert flora.
Location Tayef Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Type Commission
Program Tourism + Well being
Size 100,000 SQM
Aerial Linear Shot - Highlighting the creeping kinetics of the resort along the hill
The resort creeps along the mountain, creating walled terraces housing private villas each with its garden and water ponds, adding to its oasis-like environment. Thanks to the terraced morphology, each villa enjoys a scenic view of the oasis merging into the mesmerizing mountainous desert landscape. A series of walking and running tracks cross around the scenic site, designed parametrically on specific topographic angles to define the loss of calories per minute. A dryland-forest environment categorizes the mountain base with a wide range of sports facilities and playgrounds woven between the landscapes. At length, a clubhouse and pools enliven the landscape with activities and events.
Aerial closeup View - Showing the stepped terraces along the hill
Slope analysis and generation diagrams to design the pathways
The project was a collaboration with Mohammed Harassani Architects.