Innovation Campus, NEOM
Strategically located in north-west Saudi Arabia, positioned near the Suez Canal on the Red Sea coast, Oxagon will become a pioneering cognitive city where business, industries and lives are built as a blueprint for the future of work, living and sustainability. Oxagon is planned as a logistics and industrial hub for NEOM, and the Kingdom. With a diameter of 4.3 miles (7 kilometers), cover a total of 30 square miles (48 square kilometers), and home to the world’s largest floating structure.
Morphis, were invited to prepare landscape vision and design proposals in collaboration with architects WilkinsonEyre and engineers Buro Happold engineers for Innovation Campus at Oxagon; a world-class destination for nature to thrive, innovation to invest and for workers and visitors alike to enjoy a celebrated local culture for the future. The brief called for a design which NEOM’s guiding principles to promote a healthy and sustainable lifestyle as a catalyst for economic growth and diversity in NEOM City and the wider Kingdom.
Brimming with unexplored potential, Innovation Campus will become a sensitively and sustainable contemporary landscape rooted in the culture of the Kingdom’s community to harness the spectacular contextual jebels and framed by the everchanging wadis to create a resilient and healthy waterway. Cooled by the Red Sea breezes to create sensitive biophilic and geological context, the coastal treatment and protection will avoid disruption to the existing marine reed-beds, including coral reefscape to showcase reef restoration innovations and accelerate conservation solutions in a changing climate.
A destination brimming with unexplored potential, embracing science, nature and context as a living system.
