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Adega Casa da Torre / Carlos Castanheira

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000

A winery is no longer what it used to be.

Equestrian Centre / Carlos Castanheira + Clara Bastai

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We always worry about the well being of the people who will inhabit the spaces that we design and hope to see built. To inhabit is to occupy those spaces and to perform the vital functions of comfort, of work or pleasure. In reality, it is to do with ordering and giving form to functions.

Casa Costa Grande / Carlos Castanheira

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Costa Grande is a place with three houses and a ruin; it is not even a village. It is “Grande” or great, in name, in the access through a splendid oak forest and in the steep bank over the river Ovil, lying far below. On a first visit the doubt arises: “what am I to do with these two ruins, and the dilapidated grain store?”

Quinta da Faísca / Carlos Castanheira

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I am asked to lunch at the Quinta da Faísca, Alto Douro Vinhateiro, Favaios. This way of beginning architecture with a lunch is an interesting one, and full of flavours, smells and conversation. Architecture, or the act of thinking about architecture is a solitary activity, but it requires conviviality, information and the specific knowledge about both the functions and the future users of the buildings to be designed. And it requires Time.