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Project Hankede

Firm

Spaces.Inc mv

Type

Landscape + Planning › Masterplan

STATUS

Concept

Hankede Integrated Tourism Project

The Hankeda integrated Project had been commissioned by Maldives Funds Management Corporation (MFMC) in late 2022. Project intends to introduce a relatively new tourism product to the City of Addu by providing access to a variety of facilities and activities in one place, to activate tourism in the region and be a catalyst to generating large numbers of jobs and direct participation in the service sector.

Addu is unique: it has a strong distinctive cultural significance, the location is significant, it is the most Southern region of the whole of Southeast Asia, lying virtually on the Equatorial line, there are some naturally exceptional land areas as well as notable underwater beauty.

It is believed that “urban vitality” is perhaps the most crucial element to enable a vibrant urban space though day and night, facilitating variety and ample amount of activity, social cohesiveness and sense of safety.

There is a vital bed number, more importantly - more variety, that can sustain an inflow of tourist numbers, enabling the development of the service sector as a whole, creating adequate job opportunities to fully enable locals of the region to participate, and actively improve their quality of living and ultimately reach a state of self-sufficiency. The people of Addu shall have the opportunity to choose to live and work in their homeland at their convenience.

Spaces Inc. was commissioned to accommodate 1,040 Rooms (2080 beds) on a land area of roughly 11 hectares of land, just about half of this being reclaimed land and areas of beach nourishment. The approach was to enhance cohesiveness and inter-mingling by limiting the heights of buildings restricting towers, and have narrow-depth massing blocks distributed across the island containing diverse land uses, and the ability to be very robust in function - Ie be multi functional. Care has been given to facilitate natural lighting and ventilation, and at the same time to provide adequate buffering between the buildings. Circulation networks play a similar key role as well. It not only serves as means to move, but is an added layer between the building cadeste that can further inhibit activity.

To accommodate the aforementioned vital numbers, it is essential or vital to deliberately make these buildings as thin and serviceable (and make access to light and ventilation) as possible. Hence the thin narrow-ringed arrangement. To make the usages function efficiently, the looped or ring arrangement of buildings and movement networks complemented with the Radial networks, helps in bringing the different layers closer, ie. Helps the development to be compact and accessible. Even though these rings generally tend to organize similar functions or compatible uses alongside one another, the radial paths cutting through them enable urban clustering of different yet compatible land usages radially along the outward-running paths. For instance, you may find the largest masses of sports facilities organized along the central core of Hankeda in a loop-like arrangement. Strolling along the radial paths may enable one to discover additional entertainment and outdoor activities that might invite the fun-seeker.

Connections of activities are not only limited to the near proximity. In Hankeda, care had been given to enable a cross-connection and well-distributed placement of facilities across its land mass in a counterbalanced manner. For example, the outdoor beach-based activity area at the South western segment of the island is counterbalanced by an Outdoor water-related activity region on the North Eastern side. Similarly, you find that the beach region on the West is mostly a fun-filled activity zone, while the Eastern edge of hankeda is mostly intended much more to be for relaxation.