Activating the Streetscape and Public Spaces

The ground level is strategically designed to accommodate retail and commercial spaces, but instead of dispersing them throughout, the plan concentrates commercial activity in a central zone, ensuring optimal foot traffic and a sustainable business ecosystem.

Public space plays a defining role in the development, with a clear hierarchy of spaces: A publicly accessible park shaping the southern and western boundaries, creating a seamless connection between nature and the built environment. A 700-meter-long semi-public walking path, parallel to the main road and river, ensuring connectivity and fluid movement throughout the development. Private courtyards for each block, offering a quiet, secure, and intimate residential experience while integrating small-scale amenities such as playgrounds, sports, and recreational areas.

Impact: Cultivating Urban Belonging and Social Infrastructure

Beyond the metrics of construction and land use, Dirsi aims to foster urban connectedness and civic vitality. Public squares, walkable paths, and a robust green infrastructure network serve to dissolve the boundaries between community zones, encouraging organic interaction and multi-generational use. The inclusion of playgrounds, sports corners, and event-ready plazas reflect a design culture attentive to everyday life and long-term belonging. Spatial porosity is a key value here—semi-public walkways cross the site to unite parklands with interior neighborhoods, ensuring the public realm is never a leftover, but a protagonist. By preserving nearly half the site for open green use and by embedding community-focused amenities at every scale, Dirsi manifests an urban ethic that privileges shared experience over spectacle. It is a development not just of buildings, but of environments that nurture social life and local identity.