Parco Studio
Smart, Sustainable, Sophisticated Architectural Design
Modern Home Design Done Right
Creating your Timeless Legacy
Unlike many of the things made today (e.g. software and automobiles) once it’s built, architecture can be a very rigid, unrelenting asset. You can’t simply push out an update during construction, or after it’s completed, without incurring serious costs.
You know it's not so simple. Nothing worth getting right ever is easy. Maybe you’ve built or run a high-performance company, and now you’re considering building a home. Maybe you want to create your “legacy” home in Sonoma or Lake Tahoe, something lasting to pass down through your family — it could be your primary residence somewhere in California, or your vacation home or retirement getaway home in Hawaii.
We make sure you start with a home design that accurately predicts and responds to your future needs and a set of instructions for building that are clear and concise. Parco Studio's founder and principal architect, Ben Parco, spent more than three decades designing world-class buildings for world-class organizations — maybe even yours — optimizing every nuance of the architectural solution to serve and support the company vision and mission. We bring that same discipline and intelligence to residential architecture and home design, helping you to design and build your primary, vacation, retirement, or home focused on the vision you have for you and your family.
Thoughtful, meaningful architectural design
“I am here to create beauty and to craft places that help frame land, sea, and sky in uncommonly striking ways. I do this through the reverent consideration, harmonization, and thoughtful integration of architecture and the natural landscape in which it sits.”
- Ben Parco, AIA, LEED AP
Architectural Alchemy™
Architectural design is where art meets science and imagination meets reality. And it takes a little magic and a lot of discipline to get the formula just right. We call it Architectural Alchemy™ and it is how we blend the three essential elements of your home’s site, space, and experience to design a home of lasting quality for you.
1 - Sublime Site™
All great architectural design projects start and end with creating a special relationship between building and site. So, of course, this is where we begin our design process.
By understanding and cultivating a rich conversation between indoor spaces and outdoor places, we create extraordinary, continuous environments which surprise, delight, and uplift those who move through them.
Part art, part science, we have cultivated a special capacity to create magic in this particular way. We call the condition created by this process, the Sublime Site™.
2 - Phenomenal Spaces™
Phenomenal Spaces™ is a term we use to describe the ineffable conditions of human experience that we aim to create, conditions which impact your ongoing and unfolding awareness of a place. This includes everything from indoor/outdoor transitions, to the materials you touch, to color and finishes, light and shadow, and beyond.
These are the things, which delivered in just the right ways and in the right proportions, make a place unforgettable and joy to return to day after day. Simply put, a Phenomenal Space™ is one where the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts.
3 - Building Experience™
We explore the design of your project through lines on paper, physical models, and computer simulations. None of this matters however, unless these ideas can be made real, in a practical way.
Doing so not only requires a deep understanding of construction materials, means, and methods, but an uncommon facility for orchestrating the mountain of considerations that lead to great outcomes. This is Building Experience™.
Start your home design project with Clarity + Peace of Mind
Designing your home is more than creating a building, it’s about providing you with clarity and peace of mind from the very start. Our time-tested Parco Studio Process thoughtfully takes you step by step, balancing all the factors, considering all the possibilities and challenges, and designing a home that is right for you.
If you’re ready to get started, let’s start with a call to get clear on your goals for your new home.
Resources to Help you Plan your Home Design Project
Whether you are just beginning to explore the possibilities of designing and building your own home, or you are ready to get started, we have resources to help you plan your architectural design project.