33°30'47.99"N · 36°06'50.14"E · 929 m

Community 01 · Anti-Lebanon Foothills · As-Salboura Anchor

Sabboura
Quarter.

Naming note · Sabboura is the site spelling per the 2004 Syrian cadastre; the corridor anchor reference is As-Salboura. Both names refer to the same plateau. The nomenclature warning on the corridor anchors page applies.

A 156-hectare hillside quarter where Damascene fabric meets the agricultural belt. Built around courtyards, not corridors. Walked, not driven.

Reserve Interest → Read the Place

156HA

Quarter area

12,400

Residents T0

3,210

Dwellings T0

3–4

Storey range

100

Designed views

Begin

01 The Place

A plateau that
remembered
how to wait.

Seventeen kilometres west of Damascus Old City, the road climbs out of the basin and the air thins. At 929 metres above sea level, the As-Salboura plateau opens — almond groves on the southern slopes, scattered villages on the ridge lines, the Anti-Lebanon range rising blue to the west.

This is where the corridor's instrument meets the land it was written for. The site Sabboura Quarter sits on has been farmed, walked across, and occasionally fought over since the Bronze Age. None of that history is decorative. It is the brief.

What we are building here is not a development. It is the first community-scale read of the corridor doctrine: build to the slope, leave the belt, walk to everything.

02 The Vision

A working quarter,
not a compound.

The plan does five things at once. It reads the slope and lets the blocks fall along the natural grain. It places the public realm before the private — civic square at the upper edge, parks threaded between blocks, olive-grove walk along the southern lip.

It limits storeys to three and four, so the courtyards stay shaded and the skyline stays low. It runs a continuous covered souk-spine four hundred and eighty metres from civic square to the belt edge — the daily walk every resident takes at least twice.

And it routes all vehicles to the perimeter and to deep parking floors beneath. The inner quarter is for walking, for sitting, for children. The car is a tool, not a tenant.

PRINCIPLE I

Build to the slope.

PRINCIPLE II

Public realm first.

PRINCIPLE III

Walk to everything.

PRINCIPLE IV

Leave the belt alone.

03 The Plan

Use, written on the land.
Verifiable from above.

The plan is colour-coded on satellite, the same colours used on every block stamp inside the quarter. What you see from the air is what's permitted at ground level. No misalignment between drawing and code.

Sabboura Quarter — satellite + plan overlay

SATELLITE + PLAN OVERLAY · 33°30'47.99"N · 36°06'50.14"E

Use Mix · % of Total Area

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ResidentialT3 courtyard cluster + T4 neighbourhood block64%
Public realmPlazas, parks, shaded streets, olive-grove walk14%
CivicLibrary, community hall, clinic, K-12 school, two mosques8%
RetailContinuous 480 m souk-spine + neighbourhood anchors6%
MobilityPerimeter vehicle ring + deep parking floors4%
MechanicalDistrict cooling, utility tunnel, water reservoir4%

04 The Quarter · What's Inside

Six programmes,
one neighbourhood.

RESIDENTIAL64%

3,210 dwellings.

T3 courtyard cluster · 1,840 DU
T4 neighbourhood block · 1,370 DU
Median dwelling · 92 m² interior
Studio → 4-bed family mix
Stone façade · interior courtyards

CIVIC8%

Civic square.

Public library · 2,400 m²
Community hall · 1,200 m²
Health clinic · 800 m²
K-12 school · 1,800 capacity
Two mosques

RETAIL6%

Souk-spine.

Covered souk · 480 m continuous
Active ground floors · all blocks
Daily-needs anchors · 4 nodes
F&B · 22 lots
Local crafts · 12 lots

PUBLIC REALM14%

Parks & plazas.

Civic square · 1.8 ha
Neighbourhood pocket parks · 9
Olive-grove edge walk · 1.2 km
Shaded street network · 6 km
Salsabil + qanat water features

MOBILITY4%

Walk-first.

Perimeter vehicle ring
Deep parking · 2,100 spaces
BRT Station 05 · 1.4 km
Cycle network · corridor-linked
Service alleys for goods

MECHANICAL4%

Infrastructure.

District cooling plant
Solar PV · 1.4 MW on civic roofs
Greywater recycling network
Underground utility tunnel
Water reservoir · 18,000 m³

05 A Day in the Quarter

Drawn at three hours.
Same plan. Different light.

The plan is tested across the day. Morning school commutes, midday souk runs, evening courtyard life. The fabric works in all three.

Morning in a courtyard — children playing, families gathered

07:40 · Morning

Children at the
courtyard.

The interior courtyards are sized to a single family voice. Children walk to the K-12 in eight minutes. Grandparents take the bench in the shade of the olive trees. The block is the neighbourhood — and the neighbourhood is the city.

Midday souk colonnade — families in the shade

12:20 · Midday

Souk in the
shade.

The covered souk-spine runs the long axis of the quarter, four hundred and eighty metres from civic square to belt edge. Mashrabiya filters the light. The community hall sits halfway, marked in Arabic on the brass plaque. Most errands take ten minutes.

Evening salsabil and orange tree in courtyard

19:05 · Evening

Water, brass,
and the last orange.

The salsabil cools the courtyard before night. Orange trees are heavy by October. The decorative stonework is from Aleppo, the brass from Damascus, the timber from walnut. The fabric is not nostalgia. It is the climate logic of the place, rebuilt to last.

06 Residences · Two Typologies

Two ways to live here.
Both walk to everything.

T3 · Courtyard Cluster

The Cluster.

Three-storey courtyard houses arranged around a shared interior court. Stone façades, deep openings, terraced public realm. The intimate scale of the Damascene old fabric — built new.

1,840DU

Units

Storeys

60DU/HA

Density

Shared interior courtyard
Roof terrace per unit
Stone façade · timber screens
Sizes · 72 / 96 / 128 / 156 m²
Mix · 1-bed → 4-bed family

T4 · Neighbourhood Block

The Block.

Four-storey perimeter block with active ground floor — souk frontage at the spine, courtyard within. The walkable urban density that lets the quarter carry its programme without going tall.

1,370DU

Units

Storeys

100DU/HA

Density

Active ground floor on spine
Private balconies onto courtyard
Stone + mashrabiya screens
Sizes · 64 / 88 / 112 / 144 m²
Mix · studio → 3-bed

07 Connectivity · The Site, Today

Pan the satellite.
Read the slope.

The quarter sits on the As-Salboura plateau, 17 km west of the Old City. Within ninety minutes' walk of the agricultural belt, fifteen minutes' BRT to Al-Baja anchor, and four kilometres from the corridor's T6 civic core at Al-Qurain.

SATELLITE Open in Google Maps ↗

DAMASCUS OLD CITY

17KM

By corridor expressway · ~25 min

BRT · STATION 05 · AL-BAJA

1.4KM

~18 min walk · ~5 min e-bike

CORRIDOR T6 CIVIC CORE · AL-QURAIN

4.1KM

15 min BRT one-stop change

AGRICULTURAL BELT EDGE

Adjacent · olive-grove walk on south edge

ELEVATION

929M

Above sea level · upper plateau

09 Specifications

The numbers,
in one place.

Project Name

KETURAH Sabboura Quarter

Community Number

01 · Block C1

Coordinates

33°30'47.99"N · 36°06'50.14"E

Elevation

929 m above sea level

Location

As-Salboura Plateau, Rif Dimashq · ~17 km W of Damascus

Corridor Anchor

05 · As-Salboura (Agricultural-belt interface)

Quarter Area

156 hectares

Residents (Target)

12,400 at maturity

Dwelling Units

3,210 (T3 1,840 · T4 1,370)

Average Density

~80 DU/ha (T4 core 100 DU/ha)

Storey Range

3 — 4 storeys (no high-rise)

Material Palette

Aleppo stone · Bosra basalt · walnut · brass

BRT Connection

Station S05 (Al-Baja) · 1.4 km · 18 min walk

Status

Master Plan v1.0 · pre-construction · evidence stage

Phase Mapping

Phase C · 2037 — 2044 (As-Salboura anchor delivery)

Evidence Tier

Programme T0 · Coordinates T1 · Footprint T0

Reserve Interest

A quarter
for the arriving
decade.

Sabboura Quarter opens its first registrations to verified counterparties — sovereign anchors, DFIs, qualified institutional, and qualified individual purchasers. The diligence pathway runs through the corridor instrument.

Request Diligence Pack → All Masterplans Open Anchor 05

Sabboura
Quarter.

A plateau that
remembered
how to wait.

Stone fabric on the hill grain.
Belt below. Sky open.

A working quarter,
not a compound.

Three to four storeys.
Stone, shadow, and a courtyard at the centre of every block.

Use, written on the land.
Verifiable from above.

Use Mix · % of Total Area