Marpillero Pollak Architects

Our work as architects bridges the gap between real-estate and contemporary living, highlighting opportunities for delight. We identify unexpected opportunities with our clients, working together in a fluid process of exchange and communication to fulfill their needs and desires. Through different media and modes of representation, we help our clients to envision how a sequence of varied spatial proportions and moods can unfold in future spaces. Certainly, we do not script these experiences; instead they are an expression of the unique personality of the owners/inhabitants of any residential space. We design intimate living environments which always feel bigger than they are, because these private spaces establish relationships with their greater site and context. We are experts at maximizing each site’s inherent values and enhancing the initial real estate investment by bringing out its potential promises, in relation to a set of needs and desires. Lifestyle is the understanding and appreciating of comfort as it takes place in a unique location. Our architecture brings together life and space, to make every inch of new construction in support of our clients’ quality of life. We create atmospheres that offer varied settings for different moments in the experience of architecture. Within this temporal flow, threshold spaces play a key role as places of passage and transition, where a perceptual transformation, a shift in mood, may be desired and occur. Natural and artificial lighting play a key role in articulating these subtle differences. Private space is sensual. Our details integrate the building’s envelope with custom millwork, which both fulfills pragmatic requirements and supports the placing of customized lighting. We offer a closer-scale engagement with materials by linking settings, atmosphere, and textures as they enhance the residential spaces, for the resident’s pleasure through changing times of the day and seasons.