Most of the planet is water. Almost none of it is built on. Aquastra exists to change that, with restraint, permanence, and architectural intent.
The Name
AQUA×ASTRA
AQUA — Water, the world’s most expansive and under-built surface.
ASTRA — Stars, vision, aspiration, and the future of the built environment.
Together: water becomes a new surface for human ambition.
Who We Are
A new chapter in marine architecture.
Aquastra Marine was established in Dubai with a singular purpose: to redefine what is possible on water, drawing on decades of combined expertise in composite boatbuilding, luxury architecture, and marine engineering.
Our Mission
To engineer floating architecture of the highest standard, structures that are safe, beautiful, sustainable, and built for generations.
Our Vision
To be the world’s foremost builder of composite floating platforms, recognised by governments, developers, and private clients as the definitive name in floating architecture.
We do not build pontoons. We engineer floating architecture to the same exacting standards as a superyacht.
Engineering Philosophy
Built differently. By design.
The floating-structures market is crowded with compromises: pontoons welded from steel, foam-filled blocks, plastic cubes assembled on-site. Aquastra builds none of these. Every platform is a genuine composite marine hull, engineered with the same professional boatbuilding methodology applied to high-performance superyachts.
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Steel pontoons
Heavy, corrosion-prone, limited design flexibility, structurally compromised in open water.
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Floating pipes & cubes
Low-grade modular systems with poor aesthetics and a fraction of the lifespan of a marine hull.
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Aquastra composite hull
Advanced fibre-reinforced composite, lightweight, corrosion-free, engineered for wave action, built to last decades.
The Platform
Trimaran and quadrimaran. That is the difference.
Every Aquastra structure rides on multiple parallel composite hulls, three for mid-scale platforms in sheltered waters, four for the largest open-water structures. This is the proprietary multihull system the collection is built on. And these are not illustrations: they are rendered directly from the naval-architecture CAD models.
Stern elevation, both drawn at one shared scale; widths shown are overall, including the deck overhang. The quadrimaran is rendered from the naval-architecture CAD. The trimaran is derived from that same hull form and is illustrative. Switch the configuration to compare.
Bow-on: four parallel composite hulls.Residence, rendered from the shipyard CAD model.
Twin-hull catamaran configurations remain available through custom engineering for Signature commissions.
Platform EngineeringFour hulls at the waterline
The Strategy
One platform. Three markets.
The same platform configured for a forward operating hub, a five-star floating venue, or a private estate, without retooling.
Three independent demand streams from one production line. Defence, commercial, and private cycles move differently; together they reduce concentration risk.
The Advantage
Built in the Emirates. Deployed everywhere.
Aquastra’s production yard in Dubai — manufacturing at home, with no shipping cost and no logistics premium.
An imported platform carries import freight, a delivery voyage and a logistics premium before it reaches the water. Ours does not. Local content preference; an Emirates supply chain.
Why Aquastra
Six principles, from the hull up.
Marine Engineering
Professional composite hull construction to certified boatbuilding standards, not adapted land architecture.
Luxury Architecture
Every interior and exterior designed to the standard of a premium superyacht or five-star resort.
Sustainability
Zero seabed damage, no dredging, solar and electric readiness, built with the ocean’s future in mind.
Innovation
Trimaran and quadrimaran multihull platforms, modular superstructure systems, and hybrid propulsion integration.
Mobility
Unlike fixed structures, every platform is fully relocatable, adapting to changing markets and environments.
Customisation
Layout, materials, finishes, and technology tailored to the client’s vision, without compromise.
Floating Cities
The platform is the building block.
As coastlines become congested, our modular platform technology gives governments, sovereign developers, and visionary investors the infrastructure to build entire communities on water.
Floating Communities
Permanent residential neighbourhoods clustered on interconnected platforms.
Floating Marinas
Full-service marina facilities and yacht clubs on modular floating infrastructure.
Floating Resorts
Multi-hectare developments combining hospitality, leisure, and residential on water.
Government Hubs
Sovereign floating districts for administrative, defence, and civic functions.
Business Districts
Floating commercial zones for corporate headquarters and mixed-use districts.
Heritage
Two decades on the water, before the first platform.
Aquastra was not founded on a rendering. It began generations back, in a family boatyard on the Tunisian coast, and that craft runs through every hull we lay today.
Generations · Tunisia
The family yard
Raised in the family boatyard among master builders whose knowledge passed down through generations — craftsmanship, discipline, and the trust of every life a vessel carries at sea.
2012 · Tunisia
Trained for the sky, built for the sea
An aircraft mechanical engineer by training, he chose the water over aviation — returning to modernize the family yard into a builder of commercial fishing vessels of up to 40 metres.
2015 · United Arab Emirates
Advanced composites
World-class composite manufacturing: high-performance commercial vessels, luxury yachts, houseboats and sport craft — across production, quality and project delivery.
2023 · Maldives
Production at scale
From Production Manager to Executive Manager at one of the region’s leading marine manufacturers — hundreds of vessels delivered, from passenger ferries and resort transfer boats to diving, tourism and patrol craft.
Today · Dubai
Floating architecture
The UAE chosen as home for Aquastra Marine — marine engineering and modern architecture becoming one, to redefine how people live, work and experience life on water.
Leadership
From traditional craftsmanship to the future of floating architecture.
Some careers begin with a job. Others begin with a legacy. For Mohamed Jomaa, boatbuilding has been part of his family’s heritage for generations.
Mohamed Jomaa
Co-Founder & CEO
His journey began more than twenty years ago in his family’s traditional boatyard in Tunisia, building wooden fishing boats, commercial workboats, and pleasure craft, and learning, surrounded by generations of craftsmanship, what the sea demands of the people who build for it.
Driven to master the next generation of marine technology, he moved to the UAE and built deep expertise in advanced composite construction, sports-fishing boats, luxury houseboats, and yachts, in wood, aluminium, steel, and composite alike.
His journey continued in the Maldives, where he led engineering and production at one of the region’s leading marine manufacturers, delivering commercial passenger vessels, from island ferries to premium transfer boats serving some of the world’s most prestigious resorts. Across that career he has led the delivery of hundreds of vessels and marine projects.
After two decades building boats for others, he envisioned something greater: a company that would merge marine engineering with modern architecture to create a new generation of sustainable floating spaces. That vision became Aquastra Marine, shaped with a strategic partner whose brand and commercial structure carry it to government, hospitality, commercial and private clients.
