A Different Starting Point
Vina Lustado was moving between worlds—geographically, culturally, and professionally. She immigrated from the Philippines to California at just seven years old, carrying with her an understanding of space that wasn’t taught in architecture school. It was lived. In college, she pursued art at UCLA before transitioning into architecture at USC, eventually working for over a two decades in commercial interiors notable architecture firms. But something never fully aligned.
The first space she remembers calling her own wasn’t a room.
It was a closet she used as her own space. Twelve people living inside a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, with a bathtub doubling as a bed when space ran out.
A childhood where limited space was a daily reality.
“I learned to live pretty small from a very young age”
—VINA LUSTADO SOL HAUS DESIGN
That experience shaped how she would eventually design for others. Long before Sol Haus Design became a recognized name in small-scale residential design,
“I always felt kind of guilty in my profession,” she explains. “Because
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I felt like I was adding to the environmental degradation.”
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