BAZ Yacht Design has revealed the 33m Project MOBU, a performance-yacht concept organised around a 3.8-metre atrium and connected social spaces. The 2026 design uses half-level circulation and opening terraces to link the interior more closely with the sea.
BAZ Yacht Design has revealed Project MOBU, a 33-metre motor-yacht concept that the studio describes as a performance yacht shaped around social living. Presented as part of the wider MOBU family, the 2026 project uses circulation, vertical volume and opening exterior spaces as the principal elements of its architectural identity.
The defining feature is a 3.8-metre-high atrium extending from the aft cockpit into the main salon. Instead of treating the exterior arrival area and the salon as two distinct zones, BAZ uses the atrium to create a stronger visual and spatial connection between them, making the yacht's primary social area feel more continuous.
On a yacht measuring 33 metres, dedicating substantial vertical volume to an atrium is a significant design decision because that space could otherwise be divided more conventionally between accommodation, circulation and enclosed deck area. MOBU instead uses height as part of the experience of moving from the cockpit into the salon, giving the interior a greater sense of openness.
The atrium also gives the concept an identity that depends on architecture rather than simply exterior styling. BAZ's emphasis on social living means the central volume is intended to influence how guests see and use adjoining spaces, rather than functioning only as a visual feature within an otherwise conventional arrangement.
BAZ identifies half-level transitions as another defining element of Project MOBU. Smaller changes in elevation are used to connect neighbouring spaces without relying exclusively on complete deck-to-deck movements, allowing individual areas to remain distinct while still forming part of a continuous circulation route.
This approach supports the studio's wider intention to make movement through the yacht part of the social experience. Instead of presenting MOBU as a simple stack of independent decks, the concept uses changes in level to create relationships between spaces and to maintain visual continuity as guests move through the yacht.
Wide opening terraces form the third major feature disclosed by BAZ. When opened, these terraces are intended to extend the yacht's social spaces toward the sea and soften the boundary between enclosed accommodation and the exterior environment.
The terraces therefore reinforce the same design argument as the atrium and half-level circulation. MOBU is being presented around the relationship between guests, shared spaces and the water, with these elements working together rather than appearing as separate amenities added to an otherwise conventional 33-metre platform.
BAZ Yacht Design's official material identifies Project MOBU as a 33m motor yacht, a performance yacht and a 2026 member of the MOBU family, but it does not disclose a builder, construction contract, engine package, top speed, cruising speed, range or accommodation specification. Those details should therefore not be inferred from secondary reports until BAZ or another primary project source confirms them.
For now, MOBU is best understood as an architectural proposal centred on social connection: a 3.8-metre atrium linking the aft cockpit with the main salon, half-level circulation connecting adjoining spaces and wide opening terraces extending the living areas toward the sea. If the project moves into construction, its eventual builder and technical specification will determine how those ideas translate into a completed yacht.