Listen
We spend the first weeks asking questions: who uses the place, at what hour, and what they want to feel there.
Architecture, interiors and exhibition design
Rooms that hold the light
We design buildings, interiors and exhibitions for people who notice the way a room feels before they notice how it looks.
About the studio
Every project starts on site, with a notebook and a long walk. It ends when the light falls the way we drew it, when a visitor slows down without being asked to, and when a building still makes sense after the photographers have gone home.
Selected works
Built, shown and lived in
What we do
Four practices under one roof, sharing the same drawings, models and long table.
Public buildings, houses and cultural venues, from the first site visit to the last snag list. We stay on the project through construction.
Homes, hotels and workplaces where every material is chosen for how it ages, sounds and feels under the hand.
Permanent galleries and temporary shows for museums and foundations: layout, cases, lighting, graphics and the paths visitors take.
Furniture and lighting made in small runs with workshops in Portugal and Norway, often drawn first for one of our buildings.
How a project unfolds
Five stages, one team
The same people carry a project from the first conversation to the opening night. Scroll to walk through it.
Survey
Light studies in every season, soil and structure surveys, and a measured drawing of everything we keep.
Sketch
Dozens of quick options on paper, then three we believe in, presented side by side with honest costs.
Model
Card and timber models at 1:50, then full-size mock-ups of the details people will touch every day.
Build
We stay on site through construction and come back a year after handover to see how the place is used.
Restoration
From render to the real thing
Drag across the image to compare the competition render of Casa do Vale with the house as it stands today.
64
Buildings completed since 2009
23
Exhibitions designed for museums
11
National and European awards
38
Architects, makers and curators
The Lighthouse
A short film on how light shapes a building
From the collection
Wander the wall
Works we lit, hung or built cases for. Drag in any direction, or use the arrow keys, and open a work for its label.
Still life with tulips
Pasture at the forest edge
Stool No. 3
Paper City, no. 4
The charge
Study in drapery
Blue weather
Reading lesson
Yellow field
Reading chair
Signal
Night pour
Clients and partners
In their words
Trusted by museums, foundations and families
Kunsthall Vika
Nordlys Hotels
Museu do Rio
Lumen Press
Brann & Co.
Fundação Maré
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