Associated Projects

This associated project proposes an experimentation upon the fundamental relation and omnipresent architectural discourse between ornament and structure. Intending to explore the infinite field of uncategorized architectural possibilities lying in-between these two seemingly opposing notions, the installation in the elevator at Culturgest proposes a floating “false space”. Expanding their architectural vocabulary and getting lost in […]

MOB Projects aims to establish interdisciplinary crossings around the collective, domestic and rational condition of a intrinsic practice of architects and artists, such as furniture design. In an attempt to make architecture and art a shareable and comprehensible language, the scale of the furniture appears as a common ground of research, criticism and experimentation for […]

Atlantic Code is a proposal for understanding the historic role of Portugal in the expansion of European sovereignty over the seas and coastal colonies, following near economic collapse throughout Southern Europe and asymmetrical models of exchange imposed by European powers on the coasts around the Atlantic Ocean. Fogo Island opens up their most extensive chapter, […]

Boxing, both as a tool of self-discipline and control of violence, is part of the civilizing process. Boxing Boxes seeks the materialization of one year of architectural research that uses a new gym scheme to place this sport as a valuable instrument of spatial and civic activation in marginalized areas. Boxing requires the minimum material, […]

In 2019, the Bauhaus celebrates the 100th anniversary of its foundation. Building 101 intends to reflect on the contemporaneity of its principles and methods, having as starting point the Workshops that integrated the first curricular plan of Bauhaus – Stone, Wood, Clay, Color, Metal, Glass and Textiles. In the words of Walter Gropius, “the ultimate […]

A Certain Kind of Life explores the typology of the Carthusian Convent as an architecture of absolute rationaly, wherein the form of life cannot be detached from the space and rituals of the liturgy it shelters. Considering Cartuxa de Laveiras as a paradigmatic spatial device to understand how an individual dwells within the collective, the […]

Alvalade Revisited addresses the need for permanent updating of cities, maintaining their identity and inviting the local population to actively think about the district of Alvalade. It began with a Summer School, which resulted in three projects: Reflection, A Level of Spontaneity and A Naked City. The departing questions for this project are how could […]

Art on Display allows the viewer to experience different ways of looking at and being with art. For celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, the exhibition recreates some of the period’s classic solutions to the display of art, contrasting the stasis and fixity of 1950’s design with some of the more playful […]

Artificial Realities is framed by the confrontation between rationality and efficiency related to virtual technologies applied to the architectural design process, in an era when the technological side of virtual reality has evolved rapidly but the aesthetic side of the medium has remained in a nascent stage. Can contemplation be rational? Can the aesthetic be […]