RIYADH PROJECT Navigate to see our project RIYADH PROJECT The Riyadh Project is envisioned as a new benchmark in sustainable luxury, blending contemporary design with the cultural spirit of Saudi Arabia. Set within the capital’s desert landscape, the development emerges as an urban oasis, where architecture and nature come together in harmony. Each building is wrapped in lush vertical greenery and layered terraces, softening the built form while cooling the environment, and creating an inviting refuge for both residents and visitors. The masterplan is anchored by a series of interconnected blocks, each housing unique yet complementary functions such as hotels, wellness hubs, business spaces, cultural venues, retail, and dining. At its heart lies the Hanging Garden, a multi level landscape that brings shade, community, and biodiversity into the urban fabric. Thoughtfully designed pools, terraces, and courtyards weave through the site, ensuring every corner encourages interaction, leisure, and moments of retreat. Inside, the project balances flexibility with character. Wellness hubs feature spas, gyms,and yoga pavilions surrounded by green courtyards, while the business center integrates co working, meeting, and breakout spaces that embrace natural light and landscaped edges.The cultural core introduces exhibition and gallery spaces, celebrating creativity in an atmosphere that feels rooted yet forward looking. Every detail is guided by sustainability. Passive cooling strategies, water efficient planting, and adaptive shading create comfort in Riyadh’s climate, while the choice of hardy native and adaptive species ensures year round greenery. More than a development, this is a model for urban synergy, where living, working, and well being converge within a landscape first approach. The Riyadh Project redefines what it means to design for the future of the Kingdom, a lifestyle destination where innovation, culture, and ecology meet. PROJECT IMAGES
NR project
NR – PRIVATE RETREAT Navigate to see our project NR – PRIVATE RETREAT This private retreat in Riyadh is envisioned as a sanctuary where landscape and masterplanning set the foundation for the entire experience. The master plan organizes villas, suites, and pavilions into distinct yet connected zones, linked through a network of gardens, shaded pathways, and framed vistas. The arrangement ensures privacy for each residence while maintaining a natural flow across the retreat, allowing every space to feel part of a larger landscape story. The reception pavilion acts as the central anchor, from which a sequence of landscaped terraces and circulation routes extend. Pathways are carefully aligned to guide movement while revealing views of courtyards, gardens, and the surrounding land. The planning emphasizes balance between open lawns, intimate green pockets, and communal gathering spaces, creating a rhythm that shifts as one moves across the site. Planting palettes were selected with both resilience and beauty in mind, integrating native and adaptive species that thrive in the climate while offering seasonal variation. Shade trees, water features, and soft ground covers enrich the sensory quality of the outdoor spaces, ensuring comfort and year-round use. Over time, the landscape is designed to mature gracefully, with layers of planting and material choices reinforcing a sense of permanence and belonging. The result is a retreat where master planning and landscape design come together seamlessly. Architecture is placed lightly within the land, while the outdoor environment itself becomes the defining character of the project—a living framework that offers calm, leisure, and connection. PROJECT IMAGES
ALWASEEL
ALWASEEL Navigate to our project ALWASEEL Set on the transitional edge of Riyadh’s desert landscape, the Alwaseel Private Residence is a 1,000,000 sq.m luxury estate that redefines outdoor living in the Gulf. Commissioned by a private client and entrusted to Dar Iwan Landscape, the project blends design excellence, precise execution, and long term care into a single vision. Phases 1 and 2, covering approximately 100,000 sq.m, have been fully designed and implemented, whilePhase 3 is underway. Today, Dar Iwan also maintains over 250,000 sq.m of the estate, ensuring its continued vitality. The design brief was both ambitious and poetic: to soften the desert without erasing its essence. Instead of hiding the rugged terrain, the landscape celebrates it, moving from native desert flora at the outer boundaries to cultivated lawns, shaded courtyards, and family retreats closer to the residence. Spaces are programmed with intent, from children’s playgrounds and shaded lounges to beekeeping zones and event ready courtyards. Alwaseel is not only a sanctuary for its residents but also a benchmark for future estates, proving that prestige and ecological responsibility can coexist. Innovation was central to the project’s success. High salinity in irrigation water, a persistent challenge in the region, demanded solutions beyond conventional planting. Bio soil and adaptive irrigation strategies reduced stress on plants, while a curated palette of desert adaptive species and drought tolerant ornamentals ensured resilience and beauty. On site propagation, biodiversity nodes, shaded microclimates, and active beekeeping introduceda living ecosystem that matures over time. The project faced challenges in scale, soil, and climate. Spanning more than a million square meters, its delivery required precise phasing, logistical coordination, and ongoing maintenance infrastructure. Rocky terrain, compacted soils, and extreme seasonal temperatures called for site specific strategies from the outset, while alignment withseasonal planting cycles tested procurement and execution. Sustainability was embedded at every step. Water consumption was reduced by nearly 30 percent through precision irrigation and soil enhancements. Locally sourced species were prioritized, materials were selected for durability, and the estate’s beekeeping initiative enhances biodiversity while producing seasonal honey harvests. With Dar Iwan overseeing both design and ongoing maintenance, Alwaseel has been shaped as a living system that is resilient, refined, and evolving. Behind the estate’s success is a multidisciplinary team whose collaboration ensured excellence from concept to care. Dar Iwan’s design directors, architects, engineers, and site specialists worked alongside lighting and irrigation consultants to deliver a unified vision. On site teams, supervisors, and maintenance managers continue to nurture the landscape, ensuring its long term health and beauty. The project reflects not only the aspirations of its client but also the ambitions of Vision 2030, where luxury, sustainability, and cultural identity converge. PROJECT IMAGES
Jazan Eco – Resort
Jazan Eco – Resort Navigate to see our project JAZAN ECO – RESORT The Jazan Eco-Resort is envisioned as a regenerative destination where nature, wellness, and culture are seamlessly interwoven. Designed as a 42,000 m² sanctuary, the masterplan celebrates the richness of SaudiArabia’s landscapes while creating immersive spaces for rest, play, and discovery. At the heart of the development is the Biosphere, a striking landmark that houses thereception, restaurant, café, and administration. Surrounded by lush greenery and water features, it acts as the gateway into a world where modern comforts coexist with ecological sensitivity. Clusters of bungalows are thoughtfully placed across the site, offering privacy and intimacy while keeping guests visually and physically connected to nature. The architecture and pathways are carefully oriented to ensure seamless circulation and an organic sense of exploration. The cascade and organic pond form the lifeblood of the landscape, cooling the environment, enriching biodiversity, and providing guests with moments of reflection.Adjacent orchards celebrate edible planting, integrating fresh produce into the resort’s culinary experience. An extensive activities zone is dedicated to adventure and discovery, including rock climbing, zip lining, stargazing, tree houses, butterfly gardens, greenhouses, and outdoor camping. This ensures a balance between wellness, education, and high-intensity recreation, appealing to diverse age groups and visitor interests. Supporting elements such as sports facilities and staff housing, car parks, and a well-structured main road make the project both guest-friendly and operationally efficient. Ultimately, the Jazan Eco-Resort is designed as more than a place to stay is a living landscape. Guests can reconnect with nature, engage in cultural exchange, and experienceSaudi Arabia’s unique biodiversity through an environment that is restorative, sustainable, and future focused. PROJECT IMAGES
UMLUJ
UMLUJ Navigate to see our project UMLUJ OASIS WELLNESS – ECO RESORT The design of Umluj Oasis was guided by a single principle, let the land lead. Every decision, from the placement of buildings to the choice of plants, emerged from the site’s rhythms of sun, wind, and sea. The 42,000 sqm masterplan is anchored by a central water feature, not as a decorative flourish, but as environmental infrastructure, cooling the air, creating habitat, and offering sensory relief. Around this, a sequence of boutique accommodations, wellness hubs, and cultural spaces unfolds, each carefully oriented to frame views, capture breezes, and provide shade. Movement through the resort is deliberately slow and immersive; shaded pedestrian corridors, lined with native flora and textured paving, replace vehicular routes, making every journey between zones a sensory experience in itself. Architecture draws inspiration from local vernacular forms thick walls, screened openings, deep overhangs reinterpreted in a contemporary language that balances authenticity with elevated comfort. Materiality favours locally sourced stone, lime plasters, and timber detailing, chosen not just for their beauty but for their durability in the coastal climate. The landscape strategy embraces desert-adaptive and salt-tolerant planting, trees to coastal grasses and ground covers, creating a lush yet water-conscious environment that changes with the seasons and supports local biodiversity. Green roofs and vertical gardens are integrated as living systems that regulate internal temperatures, reduce energy demand, and extend habitat for pollinators. These features also soften the architectural massing, blurring the boundaries between built form and nature. Passive design is at the heart of the approach wind corridors, shaded courtyards, and evaporative cooling from water edges replace heavy mechanical cooling, proving that comfort can be achieved through climate intelligence rather than excess consumption. The programming is layered and intentional. Guests can move from a morning of coastal walks to a hands-on culinary workshop using regional ingredients, then gather for storytelling under the stars. Each activity reflects the spirit of place, encouraging a connection not only with the land but with the culture that shapes it. The phased development plan ensures that each stage of the resort is complete, operational experience, yet contributes seamlessly to the overall vision. In a hospitality landscape often defined by spectacle, Umluj Oasis takes the quieter path of restraint offering a model for regenerative tourism in arid climates. It is a resort that does not impose itself upon the landscape but becomes part of it, a sanctuary where architecture, nature, and human experience are woven together to create a slower, deeper, and more meaningful way to travel. PROJECT IMAGES Check the full project on YouTube
THE CLUB
THE CLUB Navigate to see our project THE CLUB The Club is a 75,000 sqm luxury destination envisioned to redefine wellness, leisure, and cultural engagement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Located just north of Al Diriyah, Riyadh’s heritage and cultural heart, this landmark by Solomon Holding offers a sanctuary where nature, culture, and design converge in perfect balance. Guests are invited to disconnect from the demands of public life and immerse themselves in purpose, tranquility, and community. From curated wellness facilities and world class dining to immersive natural environments and bespoke hospitality, The Club sets a new benchmark for integrated luxury. Every path, courtyard, and gathering space has been shaped to foster calm, connection, and contemplation, with materials chosen for durability, visual coherence, and deep resonance with the region’s ecological and cultural heritage. Framed views, water conscious features, and quiet resting areas create emotional anchors that balance rootedness with refinement. In collaboration with leading international consultants, each architectural cluster embodies a distinct identity while remaining deeply rooted in the site’s context. More than a destination, The Club is a legacy where Saudi elegance, timeless design, and the ambitions of Vision 2030 are brought to life. From the first moment of arrival, marked by a sculpture lined roundabout and discreet valet drop off, the journey unfolds through a sequence of experiential outdoor environments where architecture and landscape merge. Plazas, courtyards, and lush corridors create a choreographed rhythm of movement and pause, offering atmospheres that shift from intimate to socially vibrant. Seating areas emerge from garden embankments, pathways weave through thematic plantings and built forms dissolve into nature through careful layering of vegetation. This is not a place defined by grand gestures alone, but by the elegance of restraint, where every texture, scent, and seasonal change builds a sensory narrative. Each element is selected not only for beauty but for its ability to evoke connection with nature at every scale, offering moments for solitude, reflection, and shared experience. The Club introduces a new model for integrated luxury in the Middle East, one where the landscape is not an accessory but the foundation of identity, sustainability, and guest experience. Instead of imposing order upon the land, the masterplan embraces its undulating terrain, aligning clusters and pathways with ridge lines, wadis, and existing vegetation to enhance microclimate performance and visual harmony. Regionally adapted planting ensures long term water efficiency and ecological stability, while shaded, naturally ventilated circulation networks encourage walking and create ecological corridors. A five hectare manmade lake, framed by mountains, doubles as a water sports hub and ecological catchment, enriching both climate and storytelling. The architecture draws from Najdi heritage through a contemporary lens, with limestone, rammed earth, and shaded corridors that root the design in place while elevating environmental performance. Wellness, hospitality, and culture are seamlessly integrated into a multidimensional lifestyle ecosystem that reflects purpose driven luxury. Designing The Club required orchestrating diverse programs into a cohesive whole, ensuring that complexity never diluted emotional clarity. Flow, sensory transitions, and visual rhythm guided the spatial strategy, with a unified palette of materials, textures, and planting types ensuring harmony. The design responds with humility to the sacred context of Al Diriyah, blending structures into the land and employing earth toned materials, low contrast palettes, and landscape buffering to respect the surrounding heritage.Environmental challenges including heat, high solar exposure, and water scarcity are met with passive cooling, generous canopy cover, and water smart planting strategies, resulting in an environment that is immersive, precise, and deeply anchored to its place. Sustainability is woven into the project at every level. Native and climate adaptive species reduce irrigation needs while enhancing biodiversity, and soil health is preserved through organic amendments and minimized chemical use. Locally sourced hardscape materials offer thermal performance and longevity, porous paving reduces runoff, and shaded walkways counteract heat island effects. Operationally, systems for grey water reuse, composting green waste, and low energy lighting are seamlessly integrated. Courtyards and shaded gardens reduce reliance on air conditioning, creating naturally cooled spaces that are as comfortable as they are responsible. In every detail, The Club demonstrates that in arid environments, luxury can be both beautiful and regenerative, proving that responsibility and refinement not only coexist but thrive together. PROJECT IMAGES Check the full project on YouTube
