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MAPOS Mapos LLC is an team of architects and designers who understand culture and communities.

Our work is invested in the connections inherent in public places – brands, built space, landscape, art – and especially the people who inhabit them. We are an integrated team of architects, designers, and hard-to-label creative instigators.

Lean by design, not by default.Colin Brice on why Mapos's model, a trusted core team backed by project-specific speciali...
05/27/2026

Lean by design, not by default.
Colin Brice on why Mapos's model, a trusted core team backed by project-specific specialists, is exactly the right structure for this market moment.

Featured in : "Halfway into 2026: Builders and Architects on What's Actually Working."
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The first residence at South Hill is in the home stretch!Framed against an open Upstate New York ridgeline, the gabled v...
05/21/2026

The first residence at South Hill is in the home stretch!

Framed against an open Upstate New York ridgeline, the gabled volume is taking shape, with a wood deck running the full length of the south facade, a pool surround in progress, and the landscape work beginning to catch up with the structure.

Inside, the vaulted maple ceiling is complete, oak cabinetry is set, and the wood-burning stove anchors the living room against a dark tile surround.

South Hill is Mapos's first ground-up residential community.
More to come!
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At Kirkside, Mapos issued an interim demolition set before completing construction documents, a deliberate step that gav...
05/14/2026

At Kirkside, Mapos issued an interim demolition set before completing construction documents, a deliberate step that gave the entire design team access to information that only the building itself could provide.

With the finishes stripped back, the structural engineer could read the actual roof slopes, foundations, and bearing walls. The MEP engineer could see the attic spaces and identify viable chases for equipment. And Mapos, as architects, could make adjustments informed by what's actually there, including new bathroom locations that emerged directly from what the demo revealed.

In adaptive reuse, especially in buildings of this age and complexity, this kind of sequencing isn't a detour. It's the work. The construction documents being completed now reflect a design tested against the actual structure, not just the assumed one.

Architecture:
Client: Mark Project
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In a building that has been added to, modified, and adapted across roughly 150 years, the existing structure holds infor...
05/10/2026

In a building that has been added to, modified, and adapted across roughly 150 years, the existing structure holds information that no drawing can fully anticipate. Pulling back the layers at Kirkside has been as much an act of discovery as it has been demolition.

A dropped ceiling was removed to expose collar ties, now the bones of a new vaulted guest room. A small dormer that opens into a much larger volume above, creating the perfect conditions for a tucked-away bed nook. An original fireplace and bay window, intact beneath decades of finish work, ready to anchor a new double-height reading room and lounge. Old eaves and rooflines, once exterior, now revealed indoors, and worth keeping exactly as found.

Architecture:
Client: Mark Project
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Introducing Kirkside!The 19th-century Helen Gould mansion in Roxbury, NY, layered with additions, modifications, and dec...
05/07/2026

Introducing Kirkside!

The 19th-century Helen Gould mansion in Roxbury, NY, layered with additions, modifications, and decades of adaptation, is now the subject of a full reimagination by Mapos, in close collaboration with the local MARK Project.

The vision isn't just a renovation. It's a community investment. Working alongside local residents, business owners, restaurateurs, hoteliers, and farmers through a series of regenerative design sessions, Mapos developed a program to transform the historic estate into an engine for economic growth in the Catskills region.

The Inn at Kirkside will become a boutique hotel and restaurant with 9 guest suites, a teaching kitchen, a restaurant and cocktail bar/café, a double-height library lounge, and a community center, all woven into the intimate rooms of a mansion that has been waiting for exactly this kind of purpose.

The exterior already hints at the richness inside: stacked dormers, quirky lattice windows, and volumes that accumulated over generations.

CD's in progress. Construction begins in late June.

Architecture:
Client: Mark Project

At Peconic House, the clients made one thing clear from the start: no painted sheetrock surfaces anywhere in the home. O...
05/05/2026

At Peconic House, the clients made one thing clear from the start: no painted sheetrock surfaces anywhere in the home. Only true materials, left to patina naturally over time.

Inside, that means cedar and white oak from floor to ceiling, wall to wall. A mudroom lined entirely in the same wood as the rooms it connects, with custom cabinetry, shelving, a bench, and ceiling running in continuous grain. A window seat carved into cedar, with a tall, narrow opening that frames the pool, the lawn, and Peconic Bay in a single vertical cut.

Architecture + Interiors: Mapos Architecture
Contractor Gentry Construction Company, Inc.
Landscape Design
Photography
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At Peconic House, the material palette starts outside.Corten steel and cedar siding meet at a clean horizontal line, two...
04/30/2026

At Peconic House, the material palette starts outside.
Corten steel and cedar siding meet at a clean horizontal line, two materials chosen not for how they look on day one, but for how they'll look in ten years. The oxidized steel deepens in the salt air. The cedar silvers. The house becomes more itself over time, not less.

Architecture + Interiors: Mapos Architecture
Contractor Gentry Construction Company, Inc.
Landscape Design
Photography
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Acoustics are part of the architecture at CAMP: felt ceiling baffles over the central zone help keep conversations from ...
04/26/2026

Acoustics are part of the architecture at CAMP: felt ceiling baffles over the central zone help keep conversations from traveling, while visually concealing the technical infrastructure above.

That same idea carries across the project: warm wood, soft lighting, and integrated displays, so the space supports focused analysis without feeling like a lab.

Project: CAMP
Design: Mapos Architecture
Collaborator: Two-N (GUI design)
Photography:
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A rustic counterpoint to Peconic House’s crisp geometry, the guest house was conceived as a traditional heavy-timber bar...
04/24/2026

A rustic counterpoint to Peconic House’s crisp geometry, the guest house was conceived as a traditional heavy-timber barn set back in the woods: weathered wood, straightforward volumes, and interiors built around the honesty of the structure.

Natural ventilation and reclaimed materials clearly express the outdoors. The interiors’ abstraction and literalness complement each other and intimate an overall sustainability strategy that makes this project as environmentally friendly performance-wise as it is visually.

Architecture + Interiors: Mapos Architecture
Contractor Gentry Construction Company, Inc.
Photography:
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Inside Peconic House, the material palette is intentionally unfinished, designed to age naturally in the salt air. The c...
04/21/2026

Inside Peconic House, the material palette is intentionally unfinished, designed to age naturally in the salt air. The clients’ directive: no painted sheetrock surfaces anywhere, only true materials allowed to patina over time.

The interior is conceived as a “landscape” of cedar and reclaimed white oak, oriented toward the water and carried outside through a 100-foot-long glass wall that frames the pool terrace and bay beyond. Mapos developed both architecture and interiors, pairing custom-designed elements with carefully selected off-the-shelf fixtures so the rooms feel precise, durable, and lived-in from day one.

Architecture + Interiors: Mapos Architecture
Contractor Gentry Construction Company, Inc.
Landscape Design
Photography
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Five acres of bluff-top landscape, with forest on one side and Peconic Bay on the other, set the tone for Peconic House....
04/16/2026

Five acres of bluff-top landscape, with forest on one side and Peconic Bay on the other, set the tone for Peconic House. Mapos placed the 4,000 sq ft home low in the meadow and carefully positioned it to preserve an old-growth sycamore and maintain long views across the site.

A planted green roof further reduces the home’s visual footprint, allowing the meadow to read continuously as you approach. The outdoor room extends the architecture into the landscape: a terrace steps down the hill toward an infinity-edge lap pool aligned with the bay.

Architecture + Interiors: Mapos Architecture
Contractor Gentry Construction Company, Inc.
Landscape Design
Photography
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