The Red Carpet Cliff Resorts forms an intimate waterfront town carved into a dramatic coastal landscape, where dense harbour life gives way to quieter hillside living. The proposal reinterprets the Mediterranean port town through a contemporary regional lens, grounded in climate, ecology and experience.
Set within a natural amphitheatre around a bay, wadi plains, and steep coastal hills, this pre-concept masterplan establishes a compact marina village with a clear spatial hierarchy and sequencing. Animated waterfront streets form the social heart of the public realm, while the private homes and resorts rise into terraced, landscaped hills where building clusters enjoy framed views of the sea and the mountains.
Working across a wider site of approximately 1.8 million m², the scheme choreographs a lush, climate-responsive public realm around the bay and waterfront edge. Sensitive marine and terrestrial ecologies are safeguarded, while the resort guest experience is intensified through a carefully layered mix of retail, signature food and beverage, cultural performance spaces, a beach club and wellness destinations.
Across the wider site, hotels, homes and marina life are brought together by a shared architectural language rooted in shade, texture and durable coastal materials. The overall programme comprises 300 hotel keys across six hotels, 500 residential units spanning village, waterfront and hillside settings, and a yachting hub of approximately 1,000 marina berths. Connecting all of these spaces is a lush carpet of vibrant flowers and vegetation that makes this destination stand out as a uniquely picturesque, romantic destination.
The result is a place that feels dense and lively at the water’s edge, increasingly quiet and contemplative as it rises into the landscape, and deeply grounded in its natural context.
