Araja Studio: Casa Calma is located in a pine forest near the beach, and its main purpose was to serve as a refuge from the more chaotic life of the city centre.
Architecture firm
Araja Studio
Location
Almada, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra / FG+SG
Principal architect
Ricardo Lopes
Design team
Ricardo Lopes
Collaborators
Ricardo Lopes
Civil engineer
GlobalArte
Structural engineer
GlobalArte
Construction
Amorim & Ponte
Material
Concrete, Brick, Stucco, Aluminium, Glass, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
The main goal of this project was to revitalize an existing training space to optimize its use, creating a functional and aesthetically pleasing environment that meets the modern demands of users seeking increasingly personalized training spaces.
Project name
Level Private Gym
Architecture firm
stu.dere
Location
Penafiel, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Ulisses Costa
Typology
Sports Architecture › Gymnasium
Urban islands are an important part of the history of the city of Porto, having been a very common type of housing in the city from the 19th century onwards. They were composed of semi-detached houses, built in the long patio of the bourgeois houses. They were small houses.
Project name
Covelo House
Architecture firm
Spaceworkers
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Rui Dinis, Henrique Marques
Design team
João Ortigão, Marco Santos, Tiago Maciel
Collaborators
Furniture Design: Bairro Design
Material
Wood, concrete, glass
Typology
Residential › House
In this creative crucible, the story of Portuguese architecture is still being written—one that celebrates tradition while boldly embracing the future.
Written by
Liliana Alvarez
Casa Morena is situated on a plot with verdant pine trees, a place where the view becomes lost in the green of the surrounding area and the immense blue of a bay.
Architecture firm
Mário Martins Atelier
Photography
Fernando Guerra / FG+SG
Principal architect
Mário Martins
Design team
Nuno Colaço; Sónia Fialho; Susana Jóia; Mariana Franco; Ana Graça
Structural engineer
Nuno Grave Engenharia
Landscape
HB-Hipolito Bettencourt - Arquitectura Paisagista, Lda.
Construction
Marques Antunes Engenharia Lda
Typology
Residential › House
The project is based on meeting a specific collective housing program. Inserted in a subdivision located in the new area of the city of Aveiro, the land is located on a corner, where a construction line will close.
Architecture firm
Mário Alves Arquiteto
Location
Aveiro, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Mário Alves
Typology
Residential › Housing
The house is conditioned by the size of the allotment, but motivated by an existing slope, useful even in the elimination of an uninteresting and inconvenient environment, implanted at a higher level. The strategy involves confronting and reconciling artificial and natural data.
Project name
The Oeiras House
Architecture firm
OODA Architecture
Location
Oeiras, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Landscape
p4 Engineering Tekk, A3R Lda
Typology
Residential › House
Located in Serra do Louro, within the Arrábida Natural Park, this house is built at the highest point of the land, where a ruin in an advanced state of disrepair previously stood. This structure was demolished, and the stones from the old masonry walls were reused to build the boundary walls, integrating the intervention into the surrounding rural...
Project name
House in Serra do Louro
Architecture firm
cimbre / João Completo
Location
Palmela, Portugal
Photography
Francisco Nogueira
Principal architect
João Completo
Civil engineer
Luís Teixeira Engenheiros
Structural engineer
Luís Teixeira Engenheiros
Environmental & MEP
Luís Teixeira Engenheiros
Construction
cimbre / João Completo
Material
Concrete, zinc, birch plywood, stainless steel
Typology
Residential › House
