Marc Palacios

Where imagination becomes form.

41.3851° N 2.1734° E Barcelona — Southampton EST. MMXXVI

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Naval Architecture ✦ Yacht Design ✦ Exterior Design ✦ Barcelona — Southampton

01 — The Studio

A yacht is not a shape you impose on the water. It's a conversation between geometry and hydrodynamics.

Marc Palacios is a naval architect and yacht designer working between Barcelona and Southampton. Trained at the Facultat de Nàutica de Barcelona and currently completing a Master's in Superyacht Design at Solent University, his practice lives at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely speak: the numerical precision of naval architecture and the quiet elegance of exterior design.

Experience inside the engineering departments of Feadship and AMELS has shaped a body of work defined by restraint, material honesty, and narrative-led decision-making. Every vessel begins with a brief — an owner, a stretch of water, an intent — and every line that follows answers to it.

02 — The Process

Three steps from brief to quayside.

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Imagine

Every project begins with a question: who is the owner, what waters will this vessel meet, and what intent must the design answer to. Concept before geometry.

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Design

Drawings, calculations, mock-ups. The exterior language is resolved through the same rigour as the hydrostatics — because a line that fails structurally was never beautiful to begin with.

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Build

From first pencil stroke to quayside delivery. The full translation of idea into object, where material honesty and engineering precision meet without compromise.

03 — Selected Work