A contemporary mixed-use community, unique to Oman

IBI Group’s Al Bandar Master Plan highlights our global collaboration across three continents, providing a holistic vision for a 1.2 million m² contemporary, mixed-use community in Oman, balancing tradition with modernity. 

Challenges included flood risk, significant elevations, heritage, and the lack of existing infrastructure. IBI Group’s masterplan exemplifies design excellence, creativity, and innovation. Oman’s unique heritage is embraced, and a focus on sustainability is realised in a comprehensive public realm and landscape design for walkable streetscapes and open spaces, mitigating climatic conditions and flood risk.

Al Bandar is explicitly designed as a ‘smart community’, with universal internet access, smart street furnishings, green infrastructure, and solar-power generation.  Staged across key development periods until anticipated completion in 2029, phase one began in late 2020.