Miguel Marcelino . photos: Lourenço T. Abreu © Archive Miguel Marcelino
Casa Capitão is a cultural venue located in Beato, Lisbon, focusing on music, gastronomy, art, and critical thinking. The pre-existing building, with its modest late-19th-century architecture, is now characterized by a new exposed concrete crown, translating its special program into architectural exception. Continue reading Miguel Marcelino
Miguel Marcelino . photos: Lourenço T. Abreu © Archive Miguel Marcelino
The project for the Laje Football Field is, in short, a retaining wall. A precise “L” shaped wall that defines and enables a flat football pitch on a steep slope, creating an arcade that gives access to the support facilities located underground. Continue reading Miguel Marcelino
Miguel Marcelino . photos: LOURENÇO T. ABREU © ARCHIVE MIGUEL MARCELINO
In a rural area in Pedrógão Grande, our client bought, in early 2017, a beautiful green plot of land with some ruined buildings. In June of that year, a fire of devastating proportions destroyed the flora of the land and the surrounding area. This dramatic change of the landscape, in turn, made very clear the topography tamed by a system of terraces, bringing to mind the Douro wine region or, further away, the Inca agricultural terraces in Peru. Continue reading Miguel Marcelino
Miguel Marcelino . photos: Lourenço T. Abreu © Archive Miguel Marcelino
The Casal Saloio de Outeiro de Polima is one of the few examples that document the first occupations of this territory. It is an old and humble rural house that has undergone successive changes and expansions over time until it is now transformed into a museum space. Continue reading Miguel Marcelino
Miguel Marcelino . photos + plans: © Archive Miguel Marcelino
There was the backyard where my grandfather kept a vegetable garden next to the house which, in the past, was the family’s residence — still from a distant time when there was no running water or electricity. When I was a child and spent time with my grandparents, I liked to go to the “quintal” (backyard) house, as it was called. At that time it only served as support for the vegetable garden and shelter for a small rabbit and chicken farm. I’ve always liked the long, narrow, walled-in backyard setup. Continue reading Miguel Marcelino
