Phase One
Read the land
The first phase begins with site presence, orientation, and restraint: understanding the coast, the vegetation, the first arrival sequence, and the hospitality tone before the club grows larger.
Southern
Siberut coast
Good Times
Surf-facing setting
Beach + Harbour
Arrival landscape
Mentawai-led
Hospitality ethos
Place First
A club that starts with the coast, not the programme.
The updated material makes the MAC feel most convincing when it is read as a site before it is read as a product. The southern coast of Siberut, the Good Times surf break, the protected waterfront, the lake, and the headlands give the club its reason to exist. The public story should let those conditions lead.
Phase Two
Gather by the coast
The second phase brings dining, wellness, conversation, and hosted gatherings into a coastal setting where the club's identity comes from atmosphere rather than display.
Phase Three
Extend to the water
The third phase broadens the stay around the waterfront, deepening the relationship between beach, harbour, headlands, accommodation, and the wider rhythm of Mentawai Bay.
Phase One
Begin by learning how arrival should feel.
The first phase is about presence, access, and the first read of the site. The club begins by shaping a point of welcome on the southern coast: quiet infrastructure, early service culture, paths through the landscape, and a material language that feels native to heat, salt, rain, and shade. It is the phase where the place teaches the project how to behave.
Phase Two
Let the coast become the social room.
The second phase brings the club into daily life: dining that opens to the air, wellness shaped by the island's pace, small gatherings, and places to sit long enough for conversation to matter. The MAC should feel less like a sealed enclave and more like a composed threshold between ocean, forest, and community.
Phase Three
Grow toward the harbour without losing the hush.
The third phase expands the stay and the waterfront experience, connecting the club to a broader pattern of movement across Mentawai Bay. Accommodation, marine arrival, and longer visits should feel like a widening of the landscape already introduced in the first two phases, not a departure from it.
"The MAC should feel discovered from the shoreline, not imposed on it."
Architectural Direction
Hospitality that belongs to Siberut.
Architecture that learns from the Mentawai longhouse without turning culture into decoration.
Materials and textures chosen to feel inevitable on Siberut: timber, stone, bamboo, shade, and air.
Buildings that respond to heat, rain, salt, forest edges, and coastal wind before they announce themselves.
Programming that lets Mentawai remain the host, with visitors entering a living place rather than a staged resort.
Programming and Hospitality
A gathering place shaped by culture, weather, and time.
Across all three phases, the strongest public idea is simple: the MAC should feel unmistakably Mentawai. That means hospitality with humility, architecture that responds to land and climate, and programming that values conversation, culture, conservation, and time on the island over generic luxury theatrics. The goal is depth before polish.
Explore the place behind the club
The MAC now reads as part of the island: a staged hospitality address shaped by southern Siberut, the coast, the harbour, and the slower work of making a destination belong.
Visit themac.one
Go to the dedicated MAC site for the club-specific experience.
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Location
Understand the geographic sequence from regional gateways to Mentawai Bay.
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Access & Mobility
See how aviation, marine access, and internal movement support the club.
Open route ->Tourism - The MAC
View the tourism route that sits alongside the island precinct narrative.
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Back to The Island
Return to the wider district overview and the rest of the Mentawai One masterplan.
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