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About
A focused studio, not a generalist firm.
Materia Studio designs one kind of project: custom homes built around prefabricated round-home structural systems.
Circular structures don't behave like rectangular ones. Room placement, door and window coordination, loft headroom, and foundation planning all require different thinking than a conventional home.
Repeated experience designing within the same structural systems means fewer surprises and better-resolved details for every project.
Our philosophy
Clear, buildable drawings matter more than dramatic renderings. We aim for designs that are honest about tradeoffs — what a round structure makes easy, and what it makes harder — so clients can make informed decisions instead of discovering constraints mid-construction.
Founders
Marisol Baeza
Architect, licensed in Costa Rica
Iván González
Architect, licensed in Costa Rica
How we work
We work remotely with clients across the United States, coordinating drawings, site information, and engineering input over video calls, email, and shared documents.
Working with Smiling Woods Yurts
Materia Studio is an independent architectural design studio. We are not Smiling Woods Yurts, and we do not manufacture, sell, ship, or construct round-home structural kits. A significant portion of our work is designed around kits manufactured by Smiling Woods Yurts, and that focus has shaped how we think about layout, coordination, and buildability.
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Every project starts with understanding your site and how you want to live. Let's talk.