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Confidential Project
Middle East, 2025
Teaser
Mangroves Reserve is conceived as a coastal sanctuary shaped by water, shade and ecological protection.
The project explores the mangrove as both landscape and infrastructure: a living system capable of protecting the shoreline, filtering the edge between land and sea, and creating a softer relationship between architecture and territory.
Within this protected coastal condition, paths, clearings and discreet architectural moments emerge as fragments of inhabitation. The reserve becomes a place of pause, observation and environmental presence — a landscape where silence, biodiversity and water define the spatial experience.
More than a scenic background, the mangroves become the main structure of the project: a living threshold between the urban condition and the natural rhythm of the coast.
Teaser
Limited preview due to confidentiality agreement
Location: Middle East
Area: 30 ha
Year: 2025
Design led by Karla Montauti, Associate Director at Benoy, London
Team: Alida Bata, Maggie Arulnathan
Hand sketches: Karla Montauti