CULLINAN STUDIO LTD

The existing town of Shahat is located in the renowned Green Mountain, only a few kilometres south of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the ancient city of Cyrene. Our masterplan provides homes for 60,000 people over the 1,500 hectare site, with connections to the existing town emphasised by carefully planned road links.

Dense neighbourhood centres are achieved through an abundance of mixed use and adaptable buildings that allow for growth and change according to commercial and social pressures, with new civic buildings, a university and a central botanical garden. A proposed prototype design could be applied to form over eighty kindergartens and schools, with hilltop centres surrounded by rural smallholdings and wadi farms to help integrate the farming culture of the local community.

Our masterplan creates a design for low-carbon living through walk-able neighbourhoods, shaded streets, natural cooling and low-energy buildings, wind farms and solar power fields.