Tourism Led Masterplan: Urban Framework & Strategies
Category
Scope
Vision & Concept Framework
Location
Confidential, Mediterranean coast
Size
5.4 sq km
A mountain-to-sea luxury masterplan on a private Mediterranean-facing site. Wadi Site weaves resorts, a marina, and residences into a protected coastal landscape.
Some sites hand you the concept before you've drawn a line. Wadi Site sits where two mountain peaks fall away into a river valley, which opens onto the Mediterranean, a 5.4 square kilometer stretch of coastline, farmland, and forest with 280 meters of elevation change packed into it.
The masterplan had one job: let that geography lead.
Form Follows People developed the vision and concept masterplan for Wadi Site as a mountain-to-sea luxury destination, structured around six anchor pieces that each answer to a different part of the terrain. A coastal resort holds the shoreline. A citrus mountain resort steps down the northern peak. A pine mountain wellness retreat sits in the forest to the south.
A marina works as the arrival point and ceremonial gateway, the first thing visitors see of Wadi Site's lifestyle before they've set foot on land.
Branded residences and gated communities fill in the valley and hillside terraces, and the river valley itself becomes a green spine, threading the whole plan together rather than sitting at its edge.
Three ideas hold the plan together. Nature as framework: the river valley and mountain zones aren't backdrop, they're the structure everything else hangs off.
The marina as ceremonial gateway: arrival by water sets the tone before a single building comes into view.
And a gradient of experience running through the site, from coastal glamour near the shore, through community and adventure in the middle ground, up into sanctuary and protected forest at the peaks.
That last idea shows up in the numbers too. Sixty percent of the site stays conserved, protected mountain zones, farmland, and forest left alone. Development takes the other forty, concentrated on valley floor and mid-elevation terraces where the terrain can actually carry it, with density stepping down the closer you get to the ridgelines. It's masterplanning that treats restraint as a design tool, not a compromise.
