Design lies in creation, and designers should have creative design thinking

We are a team of architects based in Oporto, Portugal. We have worked in several projects with varied programs within the residential and services scope. Our main motivation has been the development of new ideas and concepts in housing, which is, from our point of view, one of the main areas within the architecture’s practice. We promote our work by questioning the different perspectives of space use, the adaptation of buildings to the contemporary needs or, more specifically, the intentions of its future users. The relationship with its surroundings is the trigger for the base definitions of a conscious intervention with regards to the use of natural resources, allowing to an efficient exploitation of the site’s characteristics.

ounded in Porto and exploring the complementarity of its members, depA collective is a space for architectural creation and discussion, in terms of architectural projects and their interdisciplinary variables.

The Atelier Lopes da Costa, headquartered in Ovar since 1989, has wide experience in designing projects of architecture and urbanism, as well as interior design, recoveries, remodelling and landscaping. Concerned about the quality and accuracy of our services, we are keen to ensure technical assistance from the beginning of the project until the final completion of the work. We also count on the regular cooperation of technical expertise offices enabling us to ensure and coordinate all components of the project in its different specialties.

From experimental play Dalila Gonçalves tests the permeability of materials and processes of artistic practice and daily life. By using video, photography and installation she conceives objects that do not always imply real transformation of things but rather materializations of subtle unexpected, ironic, absurd and metaphorical use of matter. The subtlety of the information, the nature of materials or the modus operandi chosen, play with the very relation of “perception” and the idea of “evidence”. These strange moments are, perhaps, the kind of border between the physical reality and fiction which trigger the mechanisms of feeling and thinking that give meaning to art object.

Diogo Aguiar Studio is a Portuguese architecture studio founded in Porto in 2016. It operates between the fields of Art and Architecture, developing custom-conceived buildings and interiors and spatial installations, oscillating between public and private contexts. The studio focuses on spatial and material experimentation in the pursuit of creating immersive and sensorially appealing spaces. The emerging practice has been distinguished with several publications and nominations for international awards. In 2018, the studio was selected to integrate the official Portuguese Representation at the 16th Architecture Venice Biennale – Public Without Rhetoric.