London / Buenos Aires / Caracas
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Confidential Masterplan
Middle East, 2024–2026
Teaser / Under development
Natura Bay is conceived as a soft coastal counterpoint to the hard geometry of the urban bay.
Set along the edge of a dense waterfront district, the project transforms the boundary between city and sea into a naturalistic archipelago shaped by water, mangroves and inhabited edges. Islands, peninsulas and shaded promenades create a more fluid relationship with the coast, allowing the city to dissolve gradually into landscape.
The masterplan introduces a sequence of communities surrounded by water: waterfront hotels, beach villas, residences, mixed-use clusters, marina life, shaded walkways and public programmes connected through a continuous coastal experience.
Mangroves become the main spatial and environmental structure of the proposal. They soften the urban edge, protect the shoreline, frame views and create a living threshold between the vertical skyline and the quiet interior of the bay.
The project explores a different idea of coastal urbanity: less defined by rigid geometry, more shaped by softness, porosity, shade and ecological presence. Natura Bay imagines the waterfront as an inhabited landscape where architecture, water and vegetation form a new sense of belonging.
Teaser
Limited preview due to confidentiality agreement
Location: Middle East
Area: 42 ha
Year: 2024–2026
Design led by Karla Montauti, Associate Director at Benoy, London
Team: Zoe Su, Peggy Mok.
Hand sketches: Karla Montauti