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MAVA, 70 metres designed around the sea

A sweeping arch runs through the superstructure and visually connects the decks of MAVA, the new 70-metre concept by Abbasli Design

Abbasli Design introduces MAVA, a 70-metre superyacht concept combining sculptural architecture, expansive glazing and a multi-level beach club

MAVA measures 70 metres, yet the first objective of the project does not appear to be displaying its size. Abbasli Design has instead worked on the perception of mass, giving the superyacht a recognisable presence without making its profile feel visually heavy.

The result is a concept developed around a clear architectural gesture: a large arch sweeps through the superstructure, visually connecting the different decks and becoming the element that holds the entire design together.

Around this line are white surfaces, broad bands of dark glazing and relatively clean volumes. The contrast is simple, but strong enough to give MAVA its own identity without relying on an excess of decorative details.

An arch that becomes architecture

The project’s most immediately recognisable feature is the large curve running through the superstructure.

It is not merely an aesthetic signature. The arch visually connects the decks and reduces the sense of stacked levels often associated with yachts of this size, allowing the profile to read as a single composition.

The contrast between the white surfaces and extensive dark glazing reinforces this continuity. The windows appear less like isolated openings and more like part of the yacht’s overall architecture.

At 70 metres long with an 11.3-metre beam, MAVA has substantial proportions. Abbasli Design’s approach is therefore to control them through continuous lines and a superstructure intended to appear lighter than its dimensions might suggest.

Aft, the yacht changes character

It is at the stern, however, that the project becomes less formal.

Here MAVA progressively opens towards the sea through a multi-level beach club conceived as one of the principal areas of life on board.

The difference from a conventional beach club lies largely in its vertical development. Rather than a single platform at water level, the design creates a sequence of interconnected spaces guiding guests from the upper decks towards the sea.

The area combines direct water access with wellness facilities including a sauna, massage room and gym.

The beach club is therefore not treated as an appendage used mainly for swimming, but as a genuine living space that can remain active throughout much of the day.

Pools and terraces across the decks

The connection with the outdoors continues on the upper levels.

MAVA features a number of exterior lounges, sunbathing areas and pools distributed throughout the decks. Rather than concentrating guest life in a single large space, the design creates areas with different atmospheres while maintaining visual connections between them.

This is particularly relevant on a yacht of this scale.

Having generous space does not necessarily mean creating ever-larger rooms. It can instead provide the freedom to choose between highly social areas and more private retreats, changing the way the yacht is experienced throughout the day.

The interiors continue the exterior language

The architectural language introduced by the superstructure continues inside, where the interiors have also been developed by Abbasli Design.

The geometries become softer, using curved furniture, flowing ceiling lines and an understated material palette.

Natural light plays an important role. Floor-to-ceiling glazing is intended to keep the surrounding landscape visible from inside and reduce the separation between enclosed rooms and exterior spaces.

The result, at least in the concept imagery, is an interior that does not attempt to compete with the exterior architecture but instead translates its forms into a more intimate environment.

Wellness reaches down to the water

The positioning of the sauna, gym and massage room in the aft area also reflects a broader change in large-yacht design.

Wellness is no longer necessarily treated as a function to be enclosed within the yacht. Increasingly, it is placed close to the water, natural light and open-air spaces.

On MAVA this approach is particularly evident because the beach club becomes the point where architecture, wellbeing and direct access to the sea overlap.

Guests can move from exercise or the sauna directly outside, changing the perception of spaces that on earlier generations of yachts would probably have remained more enclosed and separated.

1,200 GT without sacrificing visual lightness

Information released around the presentation indicates an interior volume of approximately 1,200 GT for MAVA.

The figure helps explain the challenge behind the project: delivering the space expected from a 70-metre superyacht while maintaining a visually controlled profile.

That balance is one of the concept’s most interesting qualities.

MAVA does not attempt to hide its dimensions, but neither does it make scale its principal expressive feature. The sweeping arch, glazing and gradual opening of the stern towards the water instead bring order to the yacht’s volume.

A concept still looking for its shipyard

MAVA remains a concept for the moment, with Abbasli Design listing the shipyard as TBD.

This makes it useful to read the project for what it currently is: not the promise of a yacht already under construction, but a proposal exploring a possible direction for future superyacht design.

It is a direction in which the yacht is conceived not simply as a sequence of large saloons and stacked decks, but as an architecture that gradually guides those on board towards the water.

Perhaps that is the idea that best defines MAVA.

Its 70 metres provide the space, but the design continually attempts to bring that space back to the sea.

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Abbasli Design, MAVA

24 September 2026
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MAVA, 70 metres designed around the sea
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