MKCA’s Pied à Mer, a floating holiday home aboard the world’s largest residential yacht is featured in Dwell Magazine.
“It’s always a challenge to create these transforming elements and to make sure that the motion is smooth, effortless, and precise,” says Chen. “That’s exponentially more difficult on a ship where there is no clear straight up and down. We had to rely on our contractors and fabricators to build everything extremely precisely, and we had to design around the inherently greater tolerance that one has to assume on a moving vessel.”