Amara, Tilal Al Ghaf
This brief is for owners of villas in Amara, for people buying or selling one on the resale market, and for anyone weighing it against other villa neighbourhoods in Tilal Al Ghaf or nearby. Amara is a neighbourhood of twin villas inside Tilal Al Ghaf, the Majid Al Futtaim master community in Dubailand, and it is being built under the same construction contract as its smaller neighbour, Plagette 32.
The villas
All 116 villas are designed as twin villas, two houses joined as a pair. The register describes each as a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor, with a roof level above.
The front entrances are designed to be set back into the facade. The exterior materials specified are beige cladding with metal detailing and louvres, and the interiors are specified in a light palette of natural, organic tones. The neighbourhood's landscaping is specified to draw on the UAE's natural scenery and its heritage.
The main construction contract for Amara was let jointly with Plagette 32. It covers 148 villas across the two projects, plus a beach club, the landscaping and supporting structures. That figure matches the register, which records 116 villas here and 32 at Plagette 32.
Tilal Al Ghaf
Majid Al Futtaim started work on Tilal Al Ghaf, its mixed-use master community with Downtown Dubai to one side and Al Maktoum International Airport to the other, in 2018. At its heart is Lagoon Al Ghaf, a swimmable lagoon covering 70,000 square metres and fronted by 400 metres of beach, used for swimming and paddle sports, and other water bodies are spread across the wider masterplan.
The community is laid out as separate neighbourhoods, each set around its own themed park, with mosques, shops, cafes, restaurants and children's play areas placed within reach. Harmony 1 holds 243 bungalows, each with four or five bedrooms; Harmony 2 has 221 villas of four to six bedrooms; Elan and Elan 2 consist of duplex townhouses behind gates, laid out in rows of four, six and eight; and Aura is made up of semi-detached villas with four bedrooms.
Street lighting across the community combines Wi-Fi points, signage and CCTV, with automatic fault reporting and dimming to keep energy use and light spill down. Access to each district is controlled with facial recognition and RFID.
Amara is listed as sharing the facilities planned for Tilal Al Ghaf: adult and children's pools, a gym, a basketball court, a park, play areas, open green space, landscaped walkways, and routes for jogging and cycling.
Location
Distances from Amara to fixed places nearby:
- Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai, inside Tilal Al Ghaf, is 0.3 km away
- Dwight School Dubai is 0.6 km away
- Studio City Park 4 is 0.9 km away
- Studio City Park 3 is 1.8 km away
- Windsor Park in Motor City is 1.9 km away
- The Els Golf Club is 2.0 km away
- Trump International Golf Club is 2.4 km away
- The Jumeirah Golf Estates courses are 3.3 km away
- Dubai Miracle Garden is 3.6 km away