(Case studies) — In depth
Stories behind
the buildings.
Long-form looks at a few projects — the challenge, the thinking, the process and the results, told with the people who live in them.
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Residential
Case 01
Casa Alvor
A house for five seasons on the Comporta coast
How a family of five, a pine forest and the Atlantic light shaped a single, cantilevered house that opens completely in summer and closes gently for winter.
Comporta, Portugal
2024
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Restoration
Case 02
Casa do Claustro
Reopening a sixteenth-century cloister to the city
A careful, three-year restoration that turned a closed and crumbling cloister into a home for artist residencies, exhibitions and quiet study — without erasing four centuries of history.
Évora, Portugal
2022
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Cultural
Case 03
Teatro Leve
Building a theatre for sound, daylight and the city
A 420-seat concrete theatre that steps down a steep hillside above the Douro, freeing a great public stair that has become the city’s newest meeting place.
Porto, Portugal
2024
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