Architecture in harmony with nature, ocean and humanity

Manta Horizon

A living structure on the Red Sea horizon.

Sunrays falling through deep blue water above a reef, a sea turtle gliding through the light

Below becomes above

Chapter 00 — 01

Nothing but sea

The Red Sea holds no direction yet. Only light, depth and the slow geometry of a form still becoming land.

01 / 02Distant vessel — the wakeA single line drawn across unmarked water. Someone is already travelling toward the coast — and toward Manta.
Two travellers in ivory linen at the bow of a yacht, looking toward the horizon
03 / 06 — First connection

Two travellers, no biography. They are people in a film before they are anything else — a measure of scale for the living structure ahead.

Something ahead

A hazy arid coastline rising from the sea with architecture along the shore

The first horizon

The land arrives before the architecture

Aerial view of the Line spanning desert mountains to the sea

The form appears

Aerial view of the Line spanning desert mountains to the sea

One coast.
One form.
One living horizon.

Mountains — north

Sea — south

Colossal sandstone pavilion with a long reflecting water axis framing a mountain

Toward the sanctuary

Next on the horizon

Manta Horizon — Sanctuary

Enter the sanctuary