AB Hills at Jebel Ali by AB

Master Plan

The AB Hills building at Jebel Ali Hills reflects AB Developers’ understanding that a G+4 modern residential development at this address should be planned and built as a piece of architecture whose scale, whose relationship with its landscape setting, and whose contribution to the streetscape of the Jebel Ali Hills community reflects the developer’s quality commitment as clearly as the semi-furnished specification of the individual apartments within it.

The G+4 format is the planning decision that most directly shapes the daily experience of living at AB Hills, creating a residential building whose low-rise character gives every apartment within it a closer and more immediate relationship with the ground-level landscape environment, the gardens, the pool, and the community spaces, than a tower building of the same total floor area would allow. The resident of a G+4 building moves between their apartment and the shared outdoor environment with the ease and the intimacy that creates the sense of community belonging that high-rise living, for all its views and its address prestige, consistently fails to generate in the same organic and natural way. At Jebel Ali Hills, where the surrounding landscape character of the community itself contributes to the residential quality of the address, the G+4 scale of AB Hills connects its residents to that character more directly and more daily than a taller building would permit.

The building’s orientation within the Jebel Ali Hills site is planned to maximise the natural light quality and the landscape outlook available to the broadest possible proportion of the AB Hills apartment portfolio, ensuring that the daily experience of light, space, and the visual quality of the surrounding environment is as good across the full building as the site’s relationship with the Jebel Ali Hills setting makes possible. The ground-level landscape design carries the natural character of the Hills setting into the development’s shared outdoor environment through the material palette, the planting, and the spatial organisation of the gardens and community spaces that give the building’s surroundings the quality of a genuinely designed residential landscape rather than the generic outdoor areas that standard apartment buildings provide as an afterthought to the residential product above.