Work in Progress
We are lucky to have many interesting projects on board.
Most of our projects are based in the countryside in Portugal where we are very familiar with its climate and ancestral construction methods, which we have profound respect for.
We are also fortunate to have compelling projects in urban areas, in Lisbon and London, which challenge us in a different way.
DS - Housing
2022 - London, United Kingdom
High-end refurbishment of a sophisticated 410 square meter residential property in Fulham, London. Originally a Victorian terraced house, the clients want to maintain its original characteristics adapting it to their everyday modern life.
AD - Housing
2021 - Cercal do Alentejo, Santiago do Cacém
A refurbishment of a residential home in the countryside in Alentejo. The main focus of this project is to keep its traditional “alentejano” characteristic and adapt it for modern use with today’s amenities and thermal comfort.
AD - Countryside Hotel
2021 - Cercal do Alentejo, Santiago do Cacém
This project includes the change of use from an existing residential house to tourism, and connecting two existing buildings underground. Traditional architecture was maintained but adapted to modern day use with today’s amenities and thermal comfort.
AF - Housing
2020 - Melides, Grândola
Thorough study on the climate and location, orientation, views, wind, & sunpath. Passive and
low energy architecture using local materials such as rammed earth (Taipa) and compressed
earth bricks (CEB).
AF - Countryside Hotel
2020 - Melides, Grândola
This project includes the change of use from an existing residential house to tourism and the construction of a new building for in rammed earth, or, taipa. The countryside hotel is integrated with the land and has stunning views.
AF - Office
2020 - Melides, Grândola
100 square meters of an office space built in compressed earth bricks in the Alentejo region. This office has a view, an arch, a fountain, and a tree. All surrounded by earth.
BZ - Rural Hotel
2020 - Melides, Grândola
Villas are discreetly positioned in the land and the main hotel is mostly built underground but on top of the main hill, in order to decrease it’s presence in the surroundings.
EV - Agroturism
2020 - Garvão, Ourique
This project includes the change of use from an existing residential house to agro-tourism and the refurbishment of the existing ruin in rammed earth with rammed earth.
BR - Housing
2019 - Melides, Grândola
500 sqm residential project done from scratch. Brief was for it to be “barn like” and we used the Alentejo warehouses as inspiration.
FS - Countryside Hotel
2019 - Cercal do Alentejo, Santiago do Cacém
This project includes the change of use from an existing residential house to tourism. It is conceived to be all built in rammed earth using the old Portuguese way of building, Taipa.
ES - Housing
2018 - Estoril, Cascais
A two-storey home split into a 3 storey building.
The third floor is a full floor extension in cross laminated timber (CLT) and cork insulation.