Featured project
A courtyard house of limewash and timber, organised around an old olive tree and the evening light.
Casa Alba Residence
Architecture and interiors
Selected work, 2016 to 2026
Light study
From the first sketch to evening light.
Every house starts as a pencil sketch. Scroll to watch it become a model, take on timber, glass and water, then catch the evening sun.
About the studio
We design homes, hotels and workplaces around light, proportion and the way people really live. Every project starts as a line on paper and ends as a place that feels calm, honest and built to last.
Design is not only what you see. It is how a room feels at seven in the morning and again at midnight.
Plan study
Every room starts as a line on a plan.
Drawn
then built
From drawing to built
Every room we hand over existed first as a drawing. Slide across Linen Apartment to see how closely the finished apartment follows the section we drew on day one.
Drag the line to compare
Linen Apartment, Copenhagen, 2023
Disciplines
Most clients come to us for one thing and stay for the rest. Architecture, interiors, renovation and the objects inside are drawn by the same small team.
Stage 01
Sketch on tracing paper
How we work
Five steps from the first visit to the day you move in.
01
1 to 2 weeks
First visit
We walk the site or the rooms with you, listen, measure and photograph. You leave with a short brief written in your own words.
02
3 to 6 weeks
Concept
Sketches, simple card models and a first idea of cost, so we agree on direction before anything becomes expensive.
03
2 to 4 months
Design and permits
Detailed drawings, materials and planning applications, coordinated with engineers from the very start.
04
6 to 14 months
Construction
We are on site every week with the builder, checking details, samples and the budget, so nothing is decided by accident.
05
2 to 4 weeks
Handover
Snagging, styling and a final walk through together. We come back after a year to see how the place is being lived in.
Material library
Eight materials we keep coming back to.
Travertine
Tivoli, IT
Roman travertine, honed and filled
Pale oak
Jutland, DK
European oak, white oiled
Limewash
Alentejo, PT
Lime plaster in three coats
Brushed brass
Birmingham, UK
Solid brass, left unlacquered
Terrazzo
Venice, IT
Cast terrazzo, 12 mm chip
Linen
Kortrijk, BE
Heavy washed linen
Board formed concrete
Porto, PT
In situ, pine board marked
Walnut
Ohio, US
Black walnut, hard wax oil
“They listened for a long time before drawing a single line. Two years on, the house still surprises us with the way the light moves through it in the evening.”
Marta Reis
Owner, Casa Alba Residence
Recognition
Selected awards and publications