The Strand Community by RAK at Al Marjan

Master Plan

The Strand Community is RAK Properties’ most directly named community within Al Marjan Island, and its name is the clearest possible statement of the masterplanning philosophy that organises the community around the beach as the central and defining feature of daily life rather than treating the waterfront as a view to be framed from a distance.

The community’s organisation around direct beach access, with the apartment buildings positioned and oriented to maximise every resident’s relationship with the waterfront, the pathways through the community that lead naturally and effortlessly to the beach rather than requiring residents to navigate complex community infrastructure to reach the water, and the public realm whose landscape and design quality reflect the sand and water aesthetic of the strand setting, all reflect a master developer whose planning intention for this community begins and ends with the beach as the reason its residents chose to live here.

The 1 and 2 bedroom apartment range and the 3 bedroom penthouse within a single community create the demographic mix that a healthy beach community requires: the young professional investor community whose presence activates the community’s social infrastructure and sustains the rental market, the family and couple buyer whose 2 bedroom apartment or penthouse represents a more permanent lifestyle commitment to the beach community address, and the penthouse buyer whose residential ambition and investment capacity are most fully expressed by the most generous and most distinctive product the community offers.

RAK Properties’ master developer control of the surrounding island environment ensures that every dimension of The Strand Community’s setting, the beach quality, the water access, the promenade, the landscape character, and the long-term development of the adjacent island parcels, is managed with the quality intention and the long-term commitment that makes the investment’s value compound rather than be diluted by inferior adjacent development over time.