SOPAZ STRATEGIC AREA MASTER PLAN

The Saudi Aramco headquarters in Dhahran is not just a workplace — it's a small city, teeming with over 30,000 daily workers and 12,000 residents as of 2022, with continual growth expected. Led by Khatib & Alami, the planning team prepared a 20-year strategy alongside a regulatory plan to guide day-to-day development management. URBAN Silence took the lead in planning services for the team.

Employment areas are often undervalued, and especially in large cities have been under significant pressure for residential development.

Industrial areas in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames have been under significant pressure for residential development. The study gave rise to a fresh understanding of the role of the sites and offered new and unexpected possibilities for intensification through different policy and master planning approaches.

First European project (350,000m2 of new build) by Dubai developers SmartCity, following the success of Internet City in Dubai.

The Shrashif Mountain site (170ha and over 5 million m2 of development) is designed as a new central quarter of Makkah.

The 28ha site, the former military arsenal of London, comprised 22 listed buildings (some in very poor conditions), several large scale functional buildings for potential reuse and a number of empty plots.

Advisory design support role to Charnwood Council in the negotiation for a new strategic town extension at the edge of Leicester aiming to adopt Garden Suburb principles.

The site (100ha) is in a beautiful hilly location at the edge of the city, at the limit between the Green Belt and the future urban area, along a corridor of prestigious new activities.

Strategic master plan for a 60ha expansion of High Wycombe. The primary objective was to identify the benefits of synergetic development between a large disused military base and two fields not yet allocated for urban development.