Spacesshaped bylight.
An architecture and interiors studio in Lisbon. We design houses, rooms and small public buildings that stay calm for decades.
64
projects built
Architecture, Interiors, Restoration, Landscape, Furniture, Lighting
Manifesto
We design houses, rooms and small public buildings for the long, slow life of a place. We begin with the sun, the ground and the walls already standing, and add only what is needed. Thick walls, deep reveals, honest materials that age well. Fewer gestures, held longer. A building should feel calm on its first day and better on its fortieth.
Inês Valadares & Tomás Reyner, partners
Selected work
Five buildings, one patient method.
- years
- 15of practice from one room in Lisbon
- projects
- 64built across Portugal and Spain
- awards
- 11for housing, culture and craft
- people
- 18architects, makers and gardeners
Services
From first sketch to the last door handle.
- 01ArchitectureNew houses, extensions and small public buildings, from first site visit to handover.
- 02InteriorsMaterial palettes, joinery and furniture, drawn alongside the architecture or on their own.
- 03RestorationCareful repair of historic fabric: lime, stone, tile and timber, with the craftspeople who know them.
- 04LandscapeCourtyards, gardens and the edges where a building meets the ground it stands on.
“They listened for a whole summer before they drew a single line. The house feels as if it had always been waiting for us.”
Journal
Notes from the drawing table.
EssayOn thresholds
Why we spend so long on the moment between outside and in, and what an arch does that a door can't.
6 min read
MaterialLime, and time
Notes from a year of working with lime plaster: how it cures, cracks, heals and ages.
8 min read
ProjectA library for the square
Work begins on Biblioteca Norte. A look at the window grid and how it was tuned for each façade.
5 min read
Recognition
Published and awarded, at home and abroad.
As featured in Casa & Cal, FORMA QUARTERLY, The Quiet Room, Northlight, ATLAS OF BUILDING, pedra
- 2025Prémio Luz NaturalMuseu da Luz
- 2025Iberian House of the Year, shortlistCasa do Arco
- 2024Coastal Hospitality Design MedalHotel Salina
- 2023Lime & Stone Craft AwardEscada House