A family house emptied back to its walls. One long room facing south, oak wherever a hand lands, lime plaster that shifts colour through the day. 210 m², eleven months.
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Eleven hundred square metres of dry slope above the Douro, replanted with grasses and natives that hold shape from March to December on no irrigation after the second summer.
A flat roof over the river turned into the room the flat never had: a pergola sized to the shadow it casts in July, planters deep enough for small trees, and a floor that drains.
One bathroom, six months, local schist cut in three thicknesses. The client asked for calm; we took away a window and gave back a skylight.
Three metres of solid oak for a family of six, on a base drawn so that nobody sits on a leg. Oiled twice, delivered through a window.
Forty square metres between four walls, three of them somebody else's. Shade in the afternoon, one tree, a table of eight.
A 1970s house taken back to its frame: new services, new windows, one wall removed and a terrace cut into the slope behind it. Eighteen months, and the longest tender we have run.
An apartment where the sea is visible from exactly one corner. Everything was arranged around keeping that corner empty, which took three attempts and one difficult conversation.
