Architect and Interior Designer, she specialized in Architectural Lighting Design and, after working at several studios, founded LDLuz in 2016. In 2021, she joined forces with Michela Mezzavilla to co-found MMAS Lighting Design. A member of the APDI Board of Directors (and its President from 2021 to 2024), she continues her career as a designer on a wide range of local and international projects of varying types and scales, a practice she combines with teaching at BAU, IED, and UPC.
MMAS Lighting Design Studio arises from friendship and passion for light in its different facets. Mariel Fuentes and Michela Mezzavilla merge their professional backgrounds with commitment and professionalism as a common factor, from a creative and conceptual approach to the achievement of optimal results through efficient and sustainable technical solutions. They love collaborative design, immersing themselves in the creative process hand in hand with Architects, Engineers, Installers, Interior Designers, Project Managers, and Owners, to find the perfect balance between technique and sensibility. Their design philosophy is to work with the language of light as a narrative and emotional tool for people in space, so that the luminous, visual, and perceptive discourse is the guiding thread of people's experience, the underlying element of cohesion and coherence in space.
