Projects
Salalah Free Zone Master Plan
Year
2011
Location
Salalah, Oman
Client
SFZCO
Industry
Mixed-Use Developments, Transport Infrastructure, Urban and City Districts Regeneration (BRT/LRT/others, Highways and Roads, Mixed-Use Developments, Railway Networks)
Expertise
Development Access and Mobility Studies, Transport Infrastructure Planning
Salalah Free Zone Master Plan
This masterplan proposal benefits of a holistic and multifaceted approach, based on a forward-looking strategy. A new Free Zone, conceived as a world-class development, would be able to boost Salalah’s economy with significant social implications, through the delivery of a modern, functional, attractive district, as an exemplary case of proper urbanism that is based on the main principles of high quality of urban environment, sustainability and a well-conceived and integrated mobility strategy.
The conceptual Master Plan is based on five central principles:
- Connectivity with a wider system of dense relationships among emerging and consolidated ports.
- Rich and balanced mixed land use.
- Public transport strategy at urban scale to assure a tight relationship among new investments and present potentials.
- Realisation of liveable public spaces that defy the strictly industrial nature of the Salalah Free Zone development.
- Use of sustainable technologies to increase the strong competitive edge that the development seeks and to render the area an attractive pole within a larger global system.
Sustainable technologies are considered as integral part of Salalah Free Zone Master Plan.
Access Strategy Scheme