Writing
We publish when we have something worth saying. These are not news updates or project announcements — they are the observations, arguments, and working thoughts of a practice that has been paying close attention for a long time. Architecture seen from the inside, written for anyone willing to look carefully.
Process
Written by
-
Tom Eriksen
/
Founder
The plot was an hour south of Lisbon, behind the dunes at Comporta. Pine trees, white sand, a site that had no immediate neighbours and no obvious orientation — the dunes ran parallel to the plot boundary and the sea was present as sound before it was present as view.The clients were a couple who had spent twenty years living in Lisbon apartments and wanted, for the first time, a house that was specifically theirs. They were not interested in the architecture of the Alentejo coast — the white render, the terracotta — or in anything that read as a beach house. What they wanted was something that understood the landscape without illustrating it.cotta — or in anything that read as a beach house. What they wanted was something that understood the landscape without illustrating it.
Commercial
Written by
-
Jonas Thorne
/
Founder
The plot was an hour south of Lisbon, behind the dunes at Comporta. Pine trees, white sand, a site that had no immediate neighbours and no obvious orientation — the dunes ran parallel to the plot boundary and the sea was present as sound before it was present as view.The clients were a couple who had spent twenty years living in Lisbon apartments and wanted, for the first time, a house that was specifically theirs. They were not interested in the architecture of the Alentejo coast — the white render, the terracotta — or in anything that read as a beach house. What they wanted was something that understood the landscape without illustrating it.cotta — or in anything that read as a beach house. What they wanted was something that understood the landscape without illustrating it.
Residential
Written by
-
Ana Tanaka
/
Founder
The plot was an hour south of Lisbon, behind the dunes at Comporta. Pine trees, white sand, a site that had no immediate neighbours and no obvious orientation — the dunes ran parallel to the plot boundary and the sea was present as sound before it was present as view.The clients were a couple who had spent twenty years living in Lisbon apartments and wanted, for the first time, a house that was specifically theirs. They were not interested in the architecture of the Alentejo coast — the white render, the terracotta — or in anything that read as a beach house. What they wanted was something that understood the landscape without illustrating it.cotta — or in anything that read as a beach house. What they wanted was something that understood the landscape without illustrating it.