Where Space, Form & Story Converge.
An interdisciplinary studio crafting architecture, identity, and digital experience — for a small number of clients who care about the details.
A quiet obsession with proportion, material, and light.
Lumen began as a small architecture practice and grew, deliberately, into something broader — a studio where the same hand that draws a floor plan also designs the brand, the interface, and the film that introduces it to the world. We believe restraint is a design decision, not an absence of one.
Six disciplines. One point of view.
From first sketch to finished structure — residential, cultural, and adaptive-reuse work grounded in site and material.
Naming, mark-making, and the visual language that carries a client's point of view across every surface.
Spatial planning and furnishing concepts that treat a room the way we'd treat a building — with intent.
Websites and interfaces built with the same discipline as a physical space — considered, quiet, precise.
Short-form film and motion design that introduces a space or a brand the way a trailer introduces a story.
A single point of creative accountability across every collaborator, vendor, and deliverable on a project.
Four projects,
chosen carefully.
Scroll to move through the gallery — each project pinned in place until you're ready for the next.
Meridian House
Casa Solace
MAAT Pavilion
Constructa
We don't decorate space. We compose it.— Founding Principal, Lumen Atelier
A process built on patience.
We begin by listening — to the site, the brief, and the constraints nobody's said out loud yet.
Precedent studies, material research, and technical scoping — the unglamorous work that makes the glamorous work possible.
A small number of strong directions, presented in enough detail to make a real decision — never a mood board alone.
Detailed design and documentation, developed alongside fabricators, builders, and engineers — not handed off to them.
Site visits, prototype reviews, and the small corrections that separate a good result from a precise one.
A finished space, brand, or product — and a studio that stays reachable long after the ribbon is cut.
A small studio. No shortage of opinions.
Mira Ashworth
Principal Architect
Theo Navarro
Creative Director
Kai Bellamy
Motion & Film