Studio Insights.

We set the daylight study before the first plan, because a room’s hours decide its purpose.

Lime plaster costs more to apply and less to keep, and it changes how a wall meets the light.

A fixed four-week opening stage, priced separately, so both sides can leave before the expensive part begins.

A 1930s warehouse on the Setúbal waterfront, reduced to its frame and rebuilt as one long room.

The first fifty drawings of any project are made in pencil, at a desk, before a file is opened.

We revisited four floors we laid between 1996 and 2004 to see what the oil, the traffic, and the light had done.