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 is very limited. But 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

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

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

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 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