About the designer
Marc Palacios
Naval architect and yacht designer — currently at Lobanov Design.
Barcelona · Southampton
About the designer
Naval architect and yacht designer — currently at Lobanov Design.
Barcelona · Southampton
Marc Palacios is a naval architect and yacht designer working between Barcelona and Southampton. Trained at the Facultat de Nàutica de Barcelona, he is completing a Master's in Superyacht Design at Solent University — a programme that set him at the exact boundary between the numerical precision of naval architecture and the quiet elegance of exterior design.
It began with a five-year-old's VHS of the Titanic, then sailboats off the Costa Daurada, then drafting tables. The trajectory was never in doubt, only the route.
Time inside the engineering departments of Feadship and AMELS — two of the finest custom yards in the world — shaped a sensibility defined by restraint, material honesty, and narrative-led decision-making. Today that practice continues at Lobanov Design, as a designer and naval architect. Every vessel begins with a brief. Every line that follows answers to it.
Currently designing at one of the most distinctive studios in yacht design — where exterior styling and naval architecture meet. Shaping concepts from the first line to the engineering that makes them float.
Structural engineering within one of the world's most celebrated custom yards. Embedded in Project 832, modelling superyacht structures in Siemens NX and Teamcenter — including the design and analysis of a new mast hoisting and anchorage system.
Weight and centre-of-gravity calculations across interior compartments — including Project 477 “Tanzanite”, at 120m the largest yacht the yard has built — using Rhino, Grasshopper and AutoCAD. Selected to represent the yard at the Monaco Yacht Show.
Advanced programme bridging engineering and design for the superyacht industry. Pirarucu was completed here.
Naval architecture, marine engineering and hydrodynamics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya — the technical bedrock of the practice. Degree thesis on auxiliary construction processes in superyacht design.
“To do things the right way you need: first love towards them, second, the technique.” Antoni Gaudí