The science is finally beginning to measure what the body has always known, that buildings either sustain us or deplete us. But the data only describes general truths. The brief that produces a home worth living in comes from one specific family, one specific set of bodies, and the slow conversation between them and the land they have chosen.

Sam Harris recently asked whether the human origin of a thing will still matter once AI outperforms us in every creative domain. His answer was complicated. Mine is simpler, and it sits in the one place he didn't go. The home is where the question becomes biological, where every choice is made for a body that has to live there.

Mungo brought their latest lifestyle shoot to Petrichor, an off-grid home in the hills above Plettenberg Bay. What followed was a day of chasing light through handmade interiors, and a conversation with the people who built the place around what a nervous system actually needs.