The Light House, a prairie house in the heart of tropical Miami

Golden Beach, Florida, USA.

Description: Earth and spirit, a house of domesticated territoriality. Type: Residential Architecture. Architecture: HAIMNOMADAS JV.
Project Year: 2022. Location: Golden Beach, Florida, USA. 3D Images: NMD NOMADAS.

Within the vibrant urban fabric of Miami, The Light House rises as a project that does not seek to impose itself, but to integrate into the tropics—drawing from it to construct an essence that, from its first ideas, distances itself from the typical house wedged between neighbors, and instead generates a context of openness and light, captured across 360 degrees of habitability. More than a house on the water, The Light House is a territorial gesture, a cardo-decumanus projected toward the landscape, a plane that connects matter with spirit; a means to move, to inspire, and to pursue beauty in its humble Hellenic conception, present in every vertex of its components.

The project emerges from a series of simple premises:

Construction of a new horizontality to break the “mass and block” effect of the surrounding architecture.

Liberation of planes, capturing the exterior and transforming matter into permeability.

Extension of vanishing points toward the landscape (cardo-decumanus) and capture of light along the X, Y, and Z axes.

Dissolution of boundaries between interior and exterior.

Creation of the tree-nucleus as intimate heart.

Incorporation of windows “toward the landscape,” both inward and outward.

Light as a presence and shadow as a tectonic act in the tropics.

Generation of intimate scale as complicity with daily life.

The Light House is nothing more than a renewed attempt to affirm that architecture is an act of care—a choreography between matter, technique, and spirit; a symbol of intimacy entrusted to its inhabitants; an excuse not to astonish, but to endure.