We design houses, ateliers and small public buildings rooted in the material culture of the Iberian peninsula. Two principals, no associates.
Passive thermal mass before mechanical systems. Apertures sized to the latitude. A roof you can sleep under in August without a switch flipped.
A house averages 26 months from first sketch to handed keys. We don't take on more than the two of us can draw, by hand, on Saturday morning.
Limestone, lime plaster, cork, oak. What the region gives, and nothing pretending to be something else. We specify the quarry, not the supplier.
Family house — 195 m² — taipa, schist, cork