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09/06/2026

📢 WE’RE HIRING!

Do you have the skills we’re looking for? If you meet the qualifications below, we’d love to hear from you!

✨ Feel free to apply and become part of our team.

23/05/2026

The Social Security System (SSS) on Friday announced plans to roll out an Energy Sustainability Loan Program that will allow qualified members to avail of financing to install residential solar panel systems that they can pay for up to seven years.

According to SSS, it targets to support at least 100,000 homes by 2028 through the program amid the rising electricity costs and the government’s push for long-term energy sustainability.

The agency has yet to release specific details for the program, but said the program will be made available for members with a Mandatory Provident Fund account.

Read more:
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/companies/988605/sss-energy-sustainability-loan-residential-solar-panels/story/

22/05/2026

🚧 Introducing Our Industrial Test Fit Simulator 🚧

At G.E.E.K. Studio Architects, we’re developing a smarter way to visualize and maximize industrial land potential across global logistics markets. Architects can’t be replaced by Ai. Because we are the ones programming and Ai is the tool translating it into codes and numbers. If you work alongside it, you will never be replaced by it.

In this Design Simulator V.1 we built, any site can be easily checked if feasible to maximize its potential. Imagine being given 20 sites by a realtor, asking you to check which one can generate the Best Rental Income Annually. There’s no way to check it fast but plan carefully one by one which could take 3 days per site depending on your designer’s experience and capabilities. But now that It’s possible using the tools we had. This is basic coding for some but already a game changer for us Architects. It might not be the final output yet (you still have to do your planning, BIM & Renderin afterwards), but it sets you the right foot which Option and Site gives the best Feasibility.

Using site coordinates and essential warehouse planning parameters, our new Test Fit Simulator helps architects, developers, and industrial planners quickly generate optimized big-box layouts for future logistics and industrial developments.

⚙️ Features include:
▪️ Automated Site Test Fits
▪️ Max GFA Calculator
▪️ Compliance Detection System
▪️ Warehouse Planning Logic
▪️ Global Industrial Parameter Integration
▪️ Faster Feasibility Visualization

From raw land plots to scalable logistics hubs, this tool is designed to support faster planning decisions while guiding compliance and development potential early in the design process.

Built by architects, powered by technology.

This is part of our vision at G.E.E.K. Studio Architects to bridge architecture, AI, and industrial development into smarter planning systems for the future.

29/04/2026

Reuploading this lecture about the rapid mangrove colonization in Iloilo City because of high sedimentation from a flood control project. I also shared how this study developed from a class project to 2 publications.

📌 Watch the full episode on Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Podcasts. Link in bio.

📚References:
[1] Flores, P. C. M., & Siringan, F. P. (2020). Shoreline change in response to the construction of a flood canal in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2020, 134–137.
[2] Flores, P. C. M., David, L. T., & Siringan, F. P. (2020). Mangrove forest cover change (1947–2018) at the River Mouth Section of The Jaro Floodway, Iloilo City, Philippines. IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2020, 246–249.

26/02/2026

14/02/2026

Our home office just leveled up.
Introducing our kitchen-as-a-showroom, where design, function, and daily life meet.
Because great kitchens should be lived in, not just displayed.

Special Thanks to our Partners in our Home-Studio-Showroom
Architects: Giovanni Toledo & Kenneth Toledo

16/01/2026

The Architecture of Light: Reflection, Shadow, and Spatial Form

Light is not just something that fills a space, it is something that shapes it.

In architecture, light is bent, guided, softened, and intensified through reflection, shadow, and form. Every surface becomes an instrument. Every opening, angle, and material choice determines how light behaves throughout the day.

Reflection allows light to travel deeper into space. Patterned relief walls, water surfaces, glass, and light-colored walls don’t just bounce light back, they multiply it, blur its edges, and create depth where walls end.

Shadow gives light meaning. Without shadow, form disappears. Overhangs, louvers, recesses, and screens introduce contrast, rhythm, and time into architecture. As the sun moves, shadows shift, turning spaces into living diagrams of time.

Form is the quiet director of light. Curves soften it. Sharp edges dramatize it. Voids invite it in, while mass controls its intensity. Architecture bends light not by force, but by intention.

When reflection, shadow, and form work together, space becomes more than functional and it becomes experiential. Light guides movement, defines mood, and reveals geometry without words.

In the end, architects don’t just design buildings.
They design how light is seen, felt, and remembered.

[Architect’s Home Edition]

05/01/2026

Finally someone brave spoke about it💕 Well said Ms. Nikka C. Gaddi

19/12/2025

Thank you Sta. Rosa Branch for making it 5 days before Christmas💕
Sofa Lounge for our GSA Studio