The Red Sea Project Employees' City

Characteristics of the main building complex

  Modular residential area: The neatly arranged rectangular two-story panel houses are prefabricated residential units in the Employees' City of the Red Sea project. The exterior walls are designed in a brownish red color scheme that blends desert environments to reduce heat absorption, and the roof is made of light gray insulation material. Mainly invested in Folding container house and Detachable container house, with a transportation volume compression of 70%. The annual energy consumption per square meter is ≤ 35kWh, which is 62% lower than traditional buildings.

  Industrial Chemical Law: Standardized modular splicing structure, confirming the "off-site prefabrication+fast assembly" strategy of the project, and lifting can be completed within 48 hours for a single building. Traditional concrete construction takes 6 months, while this modular community (50 buildings) only requires 45 days (including foundation construction).

Spatial Planning Logic

  Grid based road system: The building spacing strictly follows fire and ventilation regulations, the road width meets the requirements for emergency vehicle traffic, and the roadside parking spaces are for employee living facilities.

  Functional zoning: The white arched building in the distance appears to be a community service center (such as a medical station or mosque), reflecting the design concept of "residential service integration".

Environmental integration and sustainability

Ecological adaptability

  The architectural complex forms a low interference color scheme with a yellow brown desert background, reducing visual pollution; The roof inclination design enhances the ability to resist wind and sand, and adapts to the strong wind environment along the Red Sea coast.

  No large area of hardened ground (the road is a compacted foundation), retaining the original surface permeability of the desert, in line with the principle of "Light Touch Development" for the project.

  The roof is suspected to have reserved a photovoltaic panel installation base (light colored flat area), which is linked with the off grid energy storage system of the project, and can achieve 100% renewable energy supply in the future.

Project positioning verification

Core functions of employee city

  This area is an employee living base built by the Red Sea Development Company (accommodating over 10000 employees, supporting medical/educational/commercial facilities, etc.), serving the nearby Shura Island resort and airport operation and maintenance team. It is about 15 kilometers away from the coastline to avoid interfering with ecologically sensitive areas.

Signs of phased construction

The regular layout and limited number of vehicles (characteristics of the construction phase) are in line with the first phase construction status from 2023 to 2025, and the second phase plan will be expanded to 15000 residential units (target by 2030).

Summarize

The modular community of the Red Sea project employee city, with its rapid industrial construction, ecological integration design, and grid functional zoning, perfectly embodies the core proposition of sustainable new cities in Saudi Arabia's "2030 Vision". The orderly layout of the brownish red architectural complex in the vast desert confirms the ambition of the project to "tame extreme environments with technology and create livable oases", and also provides a model for modular community construction in arid regions around the world.