The project is located on 6.4 hectare site, and will accommodate all buses that connect Aqaba to other localities in Jordan, in addition to a fully-serviced passenger concourse, upscale retail and office spaces, and open public plaza that would attract users from other parts of Aqaba. The project is envisioned as a major landmark in Aqaba, a mixed-use development of high complexity, and a pedestrian-friendly and vibrant urban space. By 2020, the project will be expected to attract 24,000 passengers from all income groups on a daily basis, in addition to the users of commercial and office spaces. This bus terminal, the major component of the project, is envisioned to be a transportation hub that mainly serves inter-city movement. Inter-city travelers could connect to intracity transportation at this terminal.
The terminal should be supported by a passenger concourse of the highest quality that includes all services that a traveler may need, including a traveler information kiosk and ticket windows, company offices, a newsstand, a tourism office, a convenience store, a visitor's center, telephone booths and toilets, baggage check facilities, a police station, a bank, taxi service facilities, a post office, car rental facilities, a restaurant / cafeteria, baggage storage facilities, terminal management offices, and an operations control center. Other uses could include shops, additional restaurants, offices, and open public spaces. Including these uses would guarantee that this development is not looked upon merely as a bus station, but as a vibrant urban plaza surrounded by different attractive uses. The terminal incorporates the dynamism of movement and flow inherent to a transportation hub and the plaza provides a vibrant stage for the celebration of life in Aqaba. The design responds strongly to the need for a landmark at the city’s portal becoming a welcoming statement of arrival both from air and from land. The design’s sculptural quality straddles the site with a powerful surge of architectural energy that seems to manifest itself from the very earth of Aqaba. The mountain formations seem to constantly extend towards the edge of the water body, this phenomenon is captured in the shape of the terminal building which in turn commands uninterrupted views towards the sunset and waters of the Aqaba Bay.
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