NATURAL CONNECTION
“If I could, I would live near the sea,” says Patsy Zobel de Ayala. But with daily life and work keeping her in Manila, she went after the next best thing: bringing the outdoors home. “I love everything about nature,” she says. “This house gives that to me.”
The home of Patsy and Alexander Floro with their four children is a sprawling two-storey retreat in Alabang designed by the architect Noel Saratan, who also famously worked on her parents’ mountain house in Mindoro. He mentions that like their other projects together, Patsy’s home was a dream job because of their shared architectural philosophies.
“I have worked with Patsy for a long time, and I
