Monte d'Oiro Wine Testing Room
—Monte d'Oiro, PT

“The taste of the apple.. lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate,not in the fruit itself; in a similar way...poetry lies in the meeting of the poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost physical emotion that comes with each reading…"

JORGE LUIS BORGES

We believe in aging as a form of beauty. Our focus was on generating a space that employs the juxtaposition between natural material like stone and wood with machine made materials like glass and metal to create a sensation of duality between belongingness and weightlessness. This interplay of materials allows the architecture to be representative of Portugal’s rich built environment of traditional and contemporary design.