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Confidential Masterplan
Middle East, 2025–2026
Teaser / Under development
Mangroves Lagoon is conceived as an inhabited coastal ecosystem shaped by water, shade and soft edges.
At the centre of the proposal, the lagoon becomes the main spatial structure: a calm body of water around which landscape, movement and communities are organised. Mangroves define the edge, creating a living threshold between land and sea, protection and openness, intimacy and horizon.
The masterplan explores a naturalistic form of coastal urbanity, where islands, promenades, shaded paths and quiet residential clusters emerge from the rhythm of the water. The lagoon is not a backdrop, but the project’s centre of gravity — a place of orientation, atmosphere and belonging.
Through vegetation, access and the presence of water, Mangroves Lagoon imagines a softer way of inhabiting the coast: a landscape where architecture is held within ecology, and daily life unfolds around the slow movement of the tide.
Teaser
Limited preview due to confidentiality agreement
Location: Middle East
Area: 120 ha
Year: 2025–2026
Design led by Karla Montauti, Associate Director at Benoy, London
Hand sketches: Karla Montauti