Landscape Middle East Awards 2025 awarded to Jabal Thabeer Park Masterplan

The concept masterplan for Jabal Thabeer Park in Mecca has been awarded the Landscape Middle East Awards 2025, in the category Future Landscapes: Vision in Progress (Unbuilt).

The Awards are one of the region’s leading celebrations of design excellence in landscape architecture. They are organized in collaboration with IFLA Middle East and the Saudi Society of Landscape Architecture and this year’s partners, the World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) and the Oman Society of Landscape Architects (OSLA).

Systematica is glad to have contributed to the concept masterplan, working under the leadership of Gillespies.

Our contribution focused on pedestrian flow assessment and the development of a detailed crowd management strategy to support the proposed interventions for Jabal Thabeer and Mount Thabeer. The project envisions the site as a sanctuary where sacred tradition and contemporary needs meet.

Located on a 250,000 sqm site beside the Jamarat Bridge and Mina Tent City, the project responds to overcrowding, limited rest areas and complex terrain by reimagining more than half the site as terraces, gardens, shaded retreats and structured movement routes.