Typology: Single-Family

Dissolving the Boundaries of Living.

Situated on a waterfront parcel in Golden Beach, between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean, The Light House emerges from a fundamental conviction: architecture reaches its highest purpose when it dissolves the boundaries between human life, nature, light, and the rituals of everyday inhabitation.

Conceived as an approximately 8,000-square-foot residence, the project responds to the unique environmental conditions of South Florida: intense southern sun, prevailing eastern breezes, expansive water horizons, and the desire for privacy within a low-density residential context. Rather than treating these forces as constraints, the design transforms them into the primary generators of space, atmosphere, and experience.

The house is structured through two major territorial axes: A contemporary reinterpretation of the ancient cardo and decumanus; organizing movement, framing longitudinal and transverse views, and extending the experience of dwelling beyond the built footprint into the entirety of the site. In this way, the territory itself becomes an active part of domestic life.

Structural columns are deliberately pulled inward, liberating the perimeter from conventional enclosure and allowing horizontal planes, floating rooflines, deep overhangs, and displaced terraces to project architecture into the landscape. Stone, wood, water, shadow, and vegetation become not complementary elements, but fundamental architectural materials.

At the heart of the project, a tree defines the true spatial nucleus of the house. Around it, a series of zenithal openings deliberately perforates the roof plane, allowing natural light to descend deep into the interior. Throughout the day, light slowly traces walls, floors, courtyards, and water surfaces, transforming the residence into an inhabitable instrument of time, where shadow, reflection, and atmosphere continuously redefine spatial perception.

Rather than organizing life through isolated rooms, The Light House unfolds as a sequence of carefully choreographed thresholds where gardens, courtyards, terraces, interior spaces, and water surfaces merge into a continuous spatial experience. Boundaries are not erased; they are reinterpreted as moments of transition, discovery, and connection.

In The Light House, architecture does not simply shelter life, it expands it, allowing nature, light, and time to fully inhabit the rituals of everyday living.

An Architecture of Intimacy.

Within Miami’s tropical waterfront landscape, The Shadow House emerges as an architecture of intimacy; designed to dissolve the boundaries between interior and exterior life, creating a refuge where nature permeates every path, every framed view, and every daily ritual.

Conceived as a sequence of gardens, rooms, and open-air spaces, the home guides its inhabitants on a gradual journey; from the street to the water; where landscape is not simply observed, but fully inhabited. Each spatial transition filters light through layers of vegetation, structure, and shadow, creating an atmosphere where tropical living is experienced with depth, calm, and permanence.

At the heart of the project lies a simple yet powerful idea: in the tropics, shadow is not the absence of light; it is its most intimate expression.

Rooted in local craftsmanship and vernacular materials, The Shadow House balances warmth, texture, and contemporary precision. Stone, wood, vegetation, and filtered light work together to create a home where gardens become rooms, shade becomes architecture, and everyday life unfolds as a quiet oasis along the canals of Miami.

A Home for a Magician.

Drops of Jupiter was conceived as more than a residence. It is a living stage;  a home where architecture, nature, ritual, and imagination merge into a single atmospheric experience.

Rather than understanding domestic life as a sequence of enclosed rooms, the project explores the home as an emotional landscape: open, performative, tropical, and deeply human. A place where every path, every gathering, every arrival, and every moment of solitude becomes part of a larger choreography of living.

Embedded within the tropical context of Miami, the house unfolds through a succession of gardens, elevated platforms, monumental structures, and spaces suspended between intimacy and spectacle. Light filters through large canopies and dense vegetation, while shadow transforms the atmosphere throughout the day, blurring the limits between architecture and landscape.

At its core, the project seeks to reinterpret the idea of monumentality within domestic life; not through excess, but through emotion, memory, scale, and presence.

The house is simultaneously refuge and theater. Intimate and collective. Grounded and surreal.

A place designed not simply to be inhabited, but to be experienced.