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Confidential Project
Middle East, 2024
Eden Coast begins with the image of the Tree of Life: a solitary presence in an arid territory long associated with the myth of Eden. Standing between desert, silence and survival, the tree becomes a symbol of resilience, shade and renewal.
The project takes this image as its conceptual seed, imagining the coast as a place of peace, solitude and quiet transformation. Water, vegetation and horizon become the main structure of experience, shaping a territory for retreat, contemplation, movement and encounter.
The Tree of Life gives Eden Coast its deeper narrative: an oasis condition where landscape becomes orientation, shelter and belonging. Around this idea, the project unfolds as a sequence of atmospheres connected by shade, access, public life and the presence of the sea.
Through vegetation, programme and horizon, Eden Coast imagines the coast as an inhabited threshold: a place where architecture becomes part of a larger geography of silence, escape and reconnection.
Teaser
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Location: Middle East
Area: 2,200 ha
Year: 2024
Design led by Karla Montauti, Associate Director at Benoy, London with Nick Norgate
Team: Paolo Mendoza, Sofía Urzainqui
Hand sketch: Karla Montauti