NatureCulture

Jebel Park in Muscat

Muscat Municipality selects the NatureCulture team to advise on creating community spaces in this arid city. The result is a new type of park for the city. A nature-based systems approach introduces community spaces, cooling vegetation, active areas, safe streets, and stormwater management.

NatureCulture’s design embraces the existing topography, working with the mountain contours. Low-impact reinforced earth retaining structures minimise earthworks to create vibrant pocket parks for the local community.

The park extends village social spaces with intimate, quiet spaces shaded by native trees and framed by natural stone terrace walls, offering comfortable places for the community to gather.

An existing straight service road plagued by speeding traffic, is redesigned using shared surface principles. NatureCulture narrows the roadway and creates  an intentionally ambiguous right of way, the design naturally slows traffic and prioritises safety, especially for the children of the village.

Project Owner

Muscat Municipality

Location

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Land Area

0.5 ha (1.2 acre)

NatureCulture Role

Landscape Architect

NatureCulture Team

Tarek Al Sheeti, Reynaldo Casin, Miguelito Pegi, Andre Paul Saladaga, Ian Sandigan, Pierre Smit, Laith Wark

Partners & Collaborators

AECOM