Besis Tourism City Masterplan
Besis / Libya, 2010

Main aim of the planning is to establish a vivid tourism city for every day of the year and for every hour per day. Proposed development is equipped with different tourism concept to house tourist in every season of a year. (Sea tourism, Congress tourism, Sport tourism, Entertainment tourism).

Between these various tourism concepts accommodation of different scale and typology is introduced.

Master plan is zoned in four character areas of a center and three sub-center. Each center is designed with different concepts of building and landscape character.

The hearth of the development houses hotel and congress center. This main center opens to the shoreline through a grand promenade. The street patern is organised perpendicular to the seashore. Residential typology surrounding the main center is serviced aparts.
To the east of the site is the sub-center containing entertainment facilities such as fun fair and aquapark. here, the sea housing neighborhood is structured parallel to the shoreline and aquapark
In the south of the development sub-center contains sports services such as outdoor pitches, golf course. and accommodation for sportsmen and women.
In the north the island is designed as a sub-center with a hotel complex surrounded by beaches and recreational areas.

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The promenade runs along the shoreline allowing the residents to access the full length of the waterfront for recreational leisurely walks. moreover with its different characteristics, promenade creates a continuous recreational route linking the centers and residential units.

Development is organised perpendicular to the seashore in order to let the wind from the sea in to the built environment.
this also enables residents to take visual advantage of the sea-scape.

Distance between centers
All sub-centers are spaced in equal distace to the main center.

It takes an average 6-8 minute walk from the main center to the sub-centers.

The experience along the promenade encourages people to walk this distance.

Circulation Network
vehicular street layout not only enables service and emergency acces to all over the settlement but also pays attention to the pedestrain movement by not intersecting with the promenade.

Project facts

Masterplan: R.Güneş Gökçek

Architectural office: YPM

Project team: Evrim Özlem Kale, Bora Yıldırım, Altuğ Gönençen, Erkan Erdoğan

Project date: 2010

Land area: 620.000 m2