Our architecture is one of deliberate empathy, fragility and imperfection.
Whether renovations or new constructions, Fala Atelier’s projects are marked by their colourfulness, formal invention and humility. Since its founding in 2013, the studio has built an exemplary series of houses on small, often irregular sites in Porto and its surroundings, negotiating constrained conditions with aplomb. Curving walls that produce unexpected interior views, vibrant materials that confound expectations and mirrors that enlarge confined spaces: such are the devices that Fala Atelier uses to respond imaginatively to quotidian settings. In parallel, it has embraced architecture’s imagistic dimension, gaining renown for its digital collages that flatten its projects onto the screen or the page.
In much of its work, Fala privileges spatial affect over demonstrative functionalism. This is clear in the Suspended House (2020), where a massive concrete column penetrates the building’s levels only to hover above the ground floor, undermining its traditional place in architecture’s tectonic lexicon and appearing instead as
