Architecture
What the Vellan Coast asks of a house
Salt, wind and light are not design themes here. They are loads, and they decide most of what a building on this coast is allowed to be.
Marisa Ellory · 6 minute read
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Founding partner
Marisa Ellory
Land, commissions and the practice's building programme
- Direct line
- +44 20 7946 0117
- With Velora since
- 2009
Background
Marisa founded Velora in 2009 after eleven years buying land for a national housebuilder and concluding that the business was optimising for the wrong thing. The practice was set up to complete four houses a year rather than four hundred, and has never exceeded six.
Most of what Marisa does now happens before a house exists: assessing a plot, testing what it will actually permit, and deciding whether the site deserves a building at all. Roughly one site in nine that Velora reviews is bought.
Marisa reads every enquiry that arrives about land or a commission, and answers them personally.
