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Gastão da Cunha Ferreira | bio . cv

Martim da Cunha Ferreira | bio . cv

 

“Art is always the expression of man’s relationship with the world surrounding him. Architecture, specifically, is the expression of a fair relationship with the landscape and the social world. Only bad architecture lies outside these coordinates.” “Those who propose to build must necessarily love space, light, and the other.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 1963

Space, light and the other are the matter from which we think, design and build our projects; we think about desires and needs, we design solutions and build objects by placing the individual at the centre and society as his natural environment. 

We want to bring utopia into reality and to properly inform our clients’ investment decisions by conducting wide-ranging studies and assessments and by seeking alternative scenarios for the project’s feasibility, anticipating any operational options for its development. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Our services include architecture and urban planning projects as well as any related consulting services, object design and technical assistance to business structuring and development. Our work methodology, which we adapt according to each new challenge to guarantee the best possible outcome,  stems from our considerable experience.

We privilege creativity and innovation sustained by organization and method, insuring accurate information, care and attention in the management of each stage of the project and its systematic monitoring with our client’s demands in mind at all times. 

We evaluate all technological and building options and their technical and economic viability for each project cycle, both for building from the ground up and for interventions on pre-existing sites, and we propose qualitative and quantitatively justified options in order to sustain the decision-making process.

Attentive to the signs of the times, we take on a sense of responsibility which is reflected on the choice and management of materials and resources in order to minimize waste and avoid inadequate expense. We design solutions that will ideally answer future as well as present needs.