Site Specific Arquitectura, is a Lisbon based architecture practice formally established in 2011, and since then develops different scale projects in a wide range of programs, from new construction to renovations or interior refurbishments.
The office searches for the individuality and character of each project, embracing as one the requests of the program, the specificity of the context and location, the constraints and values of heritage, and the discipline of construction, budget and sustainability.
With solid partnerships with engineers, landscape architects or designers the office assure in all stages of each project, a wide, plural and coordinated vision combining diverse fields of knowledge and experience to develop integrated and sustainable design solutions.
We recognize the power of architecture, as a life-changing experience as well as an economic value.
The office work was awarded with PREMIS FAD interiors 2015 and represented in Lisbon Acts – BINA 2018 – Belgrade International Architecture Week and Habitar Portugal 12-14 selected by the jury. The studio’s work has been published across the world.
- Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon (1999) and holds an MA in Curatorial Studies (Architecture on Display) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (2009). While still a student, she was an Erasmus scholarship holder at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris–La Villette (1998) and won the Câmara Municipal de Loures Jov’Arte 97 Young Architecture Award.
- She began her professional activity in 1999 at the Dutch office De Zwarte Hond in Rotterdam, and in 2000 started collaborating with Aires Mateus e Associados in Lisbon. She left the practice in 2009 to work independently through various collaborations with architects, engineers, landscape architects, designers and visual artists.
- In 2010 she founded the practice Site Specific – Arquitectura, Lda, maintaining the same principle of interdisciplinary collaboration, and has since developed projects across different areas of work.
- In 2012 and 2013 she collaborated with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale as coordinator of the Lisboa Open House programme.
- In 2015 she won the FAD Interiors Award.
- 1993/94 Architecture Drawing Course I and II at AR.CO – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual
- 1993–1998 Degree in Architecture (Licenciatura) from the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon
- 1999 Academic internship at Kees Christiansen Architects and Planners, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 1999/2000 Collaboration with OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 2000 Collaboration with Inês Lobo / Pedro Domingos + Ricardo Bak Gordon / Carlos Vilela, Lisbon, on a competition for the University of Évora
- 2000–2012 Collaboration at João Luís Carrilho da Graça’s office, Lisbon, as Project Coordinator
- 2012–present PhD in Architecture, Interior – New Territories, University of Évora
- 2012 Associate at Site Specific – Arquitectura, Lda
- 2015 Winner of the FAD Interiors Award