Mauritania Eco Resort Master Plan
Mauritania Eco Resort Master Plan
Tuilit, Mauritania
LOCATION
Tuilit, Mauritania
Project Facts
Project Mauritania Eco Resort and Spa
Client ASML Group
Built-Up-Area N/a
Services Tourism Studies, Feasibility Studies, Masterplanning, Architectural Concept and Preliminary Design, Landscape Preliminary Design, 3D Rendering
Status Detail Design
Budget US$120 million
Project Features
Main Palace (housing Guest Check-in, the Grand Hall, Male Majlis, Female Majlis,Retail Outlets, Cigar Bar, Pre-dinner Drinks Bar, Three specialty Restaurants, Three commercial kitchens, Library/ Meeting Rooms, Admin Areas).
Guest Accommodation includes 30 Guest Suites (combination of Standard and Executive), 5 Family Suites and Two Presidential Suites
Multipurpose Venue/Conference Centre with MICE facilities (housing a large ballroom capacity of 350 banquet style seating, meeting rooms, a boardroom)
Day Spa with Men’s and Ladies’ separate Hammams and Massage facilities including 8 treatment rooms
Recreation Facilities comprise of four Swimming Pools including separate Ladies and Men’s pools, Pool Bar, a number of Pool Terraces and a Beach for Guests only.
Situated in undeniably the most dramatic country in North Africa ASML Group’s proposal’s for the Mauritania Eco Resort includes the development of a fully integrated tourism and educational community over a period of five years and at an estimated cost exceeding US$100 million.
Located along the pristine coastline where the desert melts into the ocean close to the Banc d’Arguin region, the new development will establish a new intellectual centre and gateway that will attract travellers and students from home and across the world to the resort and the cities of Ouadane and Chinguetti in the north, Tichitt and Oualata in the southeast. Once highly revered trade and learning centres the remains of these 12 and 13th century cities known as the Ksours, are today protected by international organisations including UNESCO and the World Bank as well as the National Foundation for the Preservation of Ancient Towns by the government of Mauritania.
The proposed development is broken down into a number of components making the project ideal for a phased development model. This will reduce the impact on the environment, enable improvement through research into the environment, facilitate long term employment benefits and local industry opportunities, avoids resource overheating, and improves economic model (inc. cash flow).
The master-planning of the site attempts to seek practicality in construction while minimising the impact on this virgin land. Each building is carefully located to take advantage of the natural terrain and to height guest experience. Vehicular movement is restricted to the dedicated parking for the public/ guests close to the site boundary; internal movement is by electric buggies/ walking. The buildings and chalets are positioned near each other while maintaining guest privacy, and thus walkable between the chalets and the resort facilities.
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 2
