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MIC Housing Development designed to be a green village within a city
The MIC Housing Phase II Development, a sustainable residential community at Mesaieed has appointed Hyder ACLA, the landscape architects and master-planners as its concept master-planner and landscape architect.
The development, which spreads across 300 hectares aims at catering to the housing requirements of an approximate workforce of 10,200 at the industrial city.
Being a residential cluster, which includes the latest concepts in initiating a new urban palimpsest for the Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC), with a minimal ecological footprint, the MIC Housing Development will be more like a green village within a city.
The Phase I and Phase II Housing Development is a joint venture between Alagaria and MIC. According to Hyder ACLA, the master-plan for MIC Housing project will be based on a ‘green lung’ of more than 5000 trees amidst the desert, and will be intermingled with refreshment areas, parks and public squares.
“The green belt is at the core of ecological framework of our master-plan. Surrounding this, we plan to develop a community representing sustainable balance between man and nature. It will be more of a ‘city void’ within the green village, rendering ‘green village’ lifestyle among the woods and waters for multinational communities in MIC,” said Hillary of Hyder ACLA.
Hyder ACLA plans to offer a compact residential development scheme to reduce car park footprint. The development is hoped to be complete by 2013. The green belt is expected to serve as an ecological corridor within the urban community of MIC Housing Phase II by neutralizing carbon footprint to a great extent.
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