Guest
Once welcomed inside a home described as a “ruin of the future”, guests aren’t just treated to a house tour but encouraged to think how they too could live inside a home that goes against the normal ideas of living. Though the original design concept for Mori House came from Manuel Aires Mateus, MA Co and Neometro helped to expand upon the design of the home that would best suit the client’s needs. Mori House does not defer from the initial idea of it being something of the future. Moreover, the home represents Aires Mateus’s strong principles of form, layout, scale and the power of walls and openings and how they work together. Acting as client and one of the architects, Jeff Provan, design director at Neometro, brought a brief that was quite simple in that it requested a generational beach house that complemented his diverse range of needs and wants. As such, the home was built on the clifftop in Mount Martha, complemented with coastal aspects, ocean breezes, northerly sun and a walkable distance to
