The objective was to turn an 1898 building in Lisbon into an apartment complex. The 20th century had seen it modified a number of times to serve different uses. The new intervention would preserve only some elements of the original construction. The
Built high on a hill near the town of Santa Bárbara de Nexe, this concrete house fuses with nature while evoking the image of an old ruin. To make the most of views, the main livable zones are placed in the upper level, a 385-square-meter space. The
The project takes up a portion of land adjacent to the Municipal Gallery building, in the heart of the center of Montijo, in the Portuguese district of Setúbal. A kind of hortus conclusus featuring two outdoor ‘rooms’ varying in altitude, the 80-squa
With a contemporary language and deferring to the environment, this house is located in the Lisbon quarter of Lapa, by the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. On a narrow and elongated plot, the dwelling presents a facade with wooden lattices on the doors
The small town of Grândola is some 120 kilometers south of Lisbon, by the coast, in the Alentejo, a vast region that is mainly rural and scarcely populated, between the Tagus River and the Algarve. Lying between Spain and the Atlantic Ocean, it takes
