The eastern lagoon, Eilat- detailed plan for a hotel and tourism compound

Client: Eilat Foreshore Development Company Ltd.
Project Initiation: 1996
Location: Eilat
Project Area: 600 dunam
Status: Approved
Program: 2,200 hotel rooms, public building and special housing
Planning Team: Ari Cohen, Boris Markovski

The plan is located at the easternmost site of the north shore of Eilat. The site is intended for different uses whose combination will provide this housing and hotel compound with a unique character suited to its time and place.

The large public space in the center of the site is the lagoon, intended to extend the public beaches and provide a rich inner landscape for all the hotels not in proximity to the Red Sea. This lagoon is used for bathing.

The overall planning concept sees this complex as part of the continuous urban fabric and maintains this continuity and linkage, both to existing and planned areas to the north and to the east in the Eilat master plan. Another planning principle, derived from conceiving of the lagoon and beaches as important public spaces, is their exposure to passersby on roads and promenades.

The northern buildings have a designated height of 6 floors, while the buildings close to the beach have a designated height of 2 or 3 floors, creating a kind of “amphitheater” with the rows in back higher than those in front so as not to block the views and openness to the sea

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The plan is located at the easternmost site of the north shore of Eilat. The site is intended for different uses whose combination will provide this housing and hotel compound with a unique character suited to its time and place.

The large public space in the center of the site is the lagoon, intended to extend the public beaches and provide a rich inner landscape for all the hotels not in proximity to the Red Sea. This lagoon is used for bathing.

The overall planning concept sees this complex as part of the continuous urban fabric and maintains this continuity and linkage, both to existing and planned areas to the north and to the east in the Eilat master plan. Another planning principle, derived from conceiving of the lagoon and beaches as important public spaces, is their exposure to passersby on roads and promenades.

The northern buildings have a designated height of 6 floors, while the buildings close to the beach have a designated height of 2 or 3 floors, creating a kind of “amphitheater” with the rows in back higher than those in front so as not to block the views and openness to the sea