Arch. Marvin Tolete, uap
Principal Architect
Marvin Tolete Architects
is an architectural firm in the Philippines with over a decade of experience in design and construction with designs focuses on simplicity, stability, and sustainability. The Philippines is a relatively hot country with an average annual temperature of 27.1 °C. The tropical country is prone to natural disasters like typhoons and earthquakes, designing buildings in such conditions requires careful planning and selection of materials, architecture designed in such place needs to be sensitive to its geographic location for it to work effectively and efficiently.
The firm follows seven guiding principles in designing their projects: beauty, economy, intelligence, strength, care, agility, and nationalism. Through these principles they are able to design projects suited for Filipinos. Beauty and economy is about creating aesthetically pleasing structures with low construction cost and maintenance cost. Intelligence and strength refers to a constant striving for innovation with durable structure and materials. Care and agility is about creating safe and time efficient construction. Nationalism is about designing buildings according to its location with careful understanding of its people and community.
The firm mainly uses monochromatic tones with the use of humble concrete finishes to their projects, for them avoiding vibrant color scheme make the spaces visually silent and was the key to emphasize the people more than the space. They believe that architecture is about people and architecture is about creating a stage for the life of its users, making a building sensitive to its environment makes it sustainable and making a building sensitive to its users makes it an architecture.
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