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North Workshop

A defunct textile mill reopened as shared maker studios, keeping the sawtooth roof and adding almost nothing but light.

Location
Porto, Portugal
Year
2022
Programme
Adaptive reuse
Status
Completed

On the design

A defunct textile mill reopened as shared maker studios, keeping the sawtooth roof and adding almost nothing but light.

The section was drawn before the plan. We began with the ground — its slope, its light, and the horizon it framed — and let the building settle into that reading rather than impose a shape on it.

A short material palette, detailed in the studio down to every junction, carries the whole scheme: board-marked concrete, oak, and glass, meeting without trim and left to age honestly.

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