Journal
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What we learn while designing houses — about light, materials, budgets, builders and the slow business of getting a home right.
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Guides
Building a house in Portugal: a realistic timeline
From buying a plot to moving in: how long licensing, tender and construction really take, and where the months actually go.
Materials
Inside our material library
Twelve hundred samples, thirty-one workshops and one rule: if we cannot drive there in an afternoon, we think twice.
Studio
What a house learns in its first year
Twelve months after handover we go back. Here is what we usually find, and what it has taught us about designing the next house.