"Other houses are built. These homes come to life — through time."
No home repeats. Built by Cortes for you — by hand, as a family.
Twelve years of foundations poured by the family that builds every home.
The Connecticut Gold Coast — Fairfield County, Greenwich, and the towns the family knows by hand.
Casa UNO, DOS, TRES — each its own film.
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— Portfolio · Live
More Life Development Group presents
The Casa Trilogy —
Three custom architectural homes
built on Connecticut's golden coast
Three dead-end cul de sacs.
Each its own life.
Together — a unified saga.
— Time
A balance of intimate moments and seamless interaction with nature and light — all framed by the space itself. Decisions that guide our lives, years after purchase.
"Time is the material we work in most."
Experience Time— The Land
A few places on earth give you all three within a morning. Fairfield does — a quiet stretch of the Connecticut coast that asks nothing of you but to slow down and live in it.
Enter the Land— The Practice · el oficio
Most homes are drawn on paper. Ours are composed on the land — adjusted by the light, the slope, the hour you'll live in.
Into the Making— Renovations · la segunda vida
The bones are good. We bring back the light — and the years it was always meant to hold.
Begin a Renovation— Her & Him
Every home we make is composed for two. Her and Him are the two natures we design through — then bring into one cohesive life.
— Who are you
Within the home, who are you?
— The practice · La casa
We build one-of-one architectural homes on the Connecticut Gold Coast — slowly, by hand, as a family.
More Life is the development name above a twelve-year foundation poured by Cortes. We do not build at volume. Each Casa is authored like a film — light arranged, rooms composed, a single home that will never be repeated. "We don't sell homes. We hand you the years it took to make one." — Jay
— Capital · the partnership
A small circle of partners stands behind each Casa before it rises — fewer homes, made better, held longer.
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— Legal · the structure beneath
Every home is held inside a clear structure — the entities, the licensing, the responsibility, all named in writing. Nothing hidden. All of it yours to read before a single conversation begins.
Read the structure
— Questions · before you ask
What it takes to begin, how a build runs, what is yours and when. The honest answers — laid out plainly, before you have to ask for them.
Open the FAQ