CAS Studio

Earth walls. Timber. Natural light.
Architecture rooted in place and climate.

Project Outeiro, Alcácer do Sal.

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Architecture that reveals the place.

What drives and inspire us is simple:
Climate. Material. Craft. Context.

Álvaro Siza’s Leça Tide Pool (1966) and Boa Nova Tea House (1963) show this principle clearly.

There, the building does not try to stand above nature. It responds to it.

The rocks, the wind and the horizon were there first.

Architecture isn’t about imposing form.
It’s about working with what already exists and revealing the place through the building.

📷:
1 – Boa Nova Tea House, Jeremy Weate
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
2 – Boa Nova Tea House, João Morgado
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 – Boa Nova Tea House, LonEMedia
(CC BY-SA 3.0)

👉🏻 Full article at www.cas-at.com/journal

A building is more than a drawing.
It listens to place, to light, wind, and sun.
Built by hand, guided by precision.
An organism, not a machine.

(Wooden Tiny House, Project Outeiro, Phase 2)

👉🏻Full article at www.cas-at.com/journal