A futuristic scene featuring a large spaceship floating above a rocky, mountainous landscape with lush green forest below. A person standing on the ground asks, "It hovers above the ground... what technology sustains this place?" In the top left corner, a caption states, "It starts with the soil. Then comes flora and fauna. The plot will be covered with a permanent garden."

It starts with the soil. Then comes flora and fauna. The plot will be covered with a permanent garden. The necessary structures hover around this garden, fluctuating above it, supported by a precise system of screws and pillars. A light, prefabricated set of wood, hemp block and lime pavilions articulated around a central clearing; these pavilions grow according to nature’s golden ratio, starting from the void of the entrance, followed by the wardrobe and toilets, the greenhouse, the kitchen and, finally, the dinning hall.

Hovering Cantine

Vila Nova de Barquinha (PT)

2026 - ongoing

A lively outdoor scene with many people gathered, dancing, and socializing under trees with hanging lanterns and lights, in an impressionist art style.

A decaying 90’s garden pavilion will get a 4th life. Now as a multifunctional space: cafe, bar, high-school lounge and canteen, concert venue but the focus is on dancing. Every space has to be easily adapted to a dance floor: non-load-bearing walls are movable storage units. And as all dancers know, who dances also sits: perimeter walls are lined with wooden benches. All designed elements are second-hand. All new materials are natural and, as much as possible, regional.

Dancing Pavilion

Santarém (PT)

2026 - ongoing

Diagram of a long house beside a creek, showing interior rooms such as entrance, foyer, living hall, winter garden, WC, kitchen, sauna, storage, sleeping room, lounge, and sun terrace. Exterior features include a fire patio, aromatic garden, swimming tank, deck, vegetable garden, pergola, solar panels, creek, meadow, massive brick sections, several trees, glass ceiling, gravel roofing, and a car parked outside.

Sitting over a granite wall, latching onto a granite house. Something between a wooden train coach and Humpty Dumpty. This house embodies the escape from the boredom of standard solutions by looking into what HERE has to offer: local materials, local workers, local know-how. Keeping resources within the village's material and social circles.

Longer House by A Creek

Caramulo (PT)

2023 - ongoing

Architectural plan and layout of a futuristic house design, labeled as 'A House of the Future,' with sections for typologies, structures, environments, prosthetics, rooms, and materials, showcasing a detailed floor plan with various labeled zones and features.

This house is the future. Or, more precisely, a future we could live with. It is built with reframed traditional technologies, limited by the quality of local hand-workers and the nature of local materials. It deals with all the (extreme) conditions of its context in a convincing manner, be their socio-cultural, economical, material or environmental. And we find it beautiful.

House of the Future

Santarém (PT)

2022 - ongoing

A detailed architectural blueprint of a house, with labeled sections indicating different parts and rooms such as study, pantry, garden, various rooms, and structural elements.

The neighbour house to the House of The Future. It is smaller,  easier to handle so we started with it. It became a living, liveable mock-up for the techniques, solutions, and materials we came to use in the renovation of the House of The Future. We tested the limits of what HERE had to offer and we had fun doing it.

Pilot House

Santarém (PT)

2022