Paulo Moreira
Architectures

Public building renovated into nine apartments for social housing, with Parq Arquitectos.

Renovation and extension into a unified dwelling.

Warehouse adapted for beer production and tasting

School and community centre in an informal settlement.

House Renovation marked by new wooden triangular insertions.

Urban intervention linking architecture, art, and landscape, with Verkron

Rural cluster converted into modest studio and home.

Social spaces in three informal settlements.

Collaborative small interventions activating a community garden, with Sechaba Maape

A speculative embassy for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, with Kiluanji Kia Henda

A fragment of a disappearing community, exhibited at maat, with Chao and Jose Sarmento Matos

Reviving erased urban memories for the Portuguese Pavilion, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Edited book exploring on-the-ground interventions in contested communities.

A self-survey reflecting on our practice, presented every five years

Small-scale interventions with repurposed materials

Slope consolidation through a community-led urban project.

Flexible project room for art, research, and cultural events

1980s apartment transformed for a young family

Exhibition design for the Portuguese Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale

A commemorative exhibition marking fifty years of Aleixo’s residents’ association.

A platform for discussing and disseminating architecture through film and public programmes

Adaptive reuse preserving historic character

Adaptive reuse of a tiny triangular house

Holiday house transformation into permanent home, with FAX

Renovation of café/restaurant with reused materials

Renovation of café/restaurant with reused materials

Completing a refurbishment trilogy in Rua dos Caldeireiros

Renovation into two compact apartments

Offices and training space with shared facilities

Building refurbishment into five apartments

Rural complex converted into a mini-village

Public building renovated into four apartments for social housing, with Parq Arquitectos

Apartment renovation preserving original features

Heritage building renovated into ten apartments

Semi-opened room adapted into a cosy shed for family gatherings

Spacious apartment transformed for upscale living

Corner café renewed into a contemporary tavern

Industrial premises adapted for cultural, residency, and workspace use

Former guard house converted into a tiny home

Carefully renovated apartment with crafted insertions

Top-floor apartment adapted for modern living

Competition for a health facility

Competition for fortress and former prison transformed into a museum

Health Centre

Former train depot transformed into a museum and brewery extension

Apartment transformed into a light-filled home

Collaborative activation of unused site with temporary structures, with ATA Atelier

Second iteration of tactical urbanism in a vacant site, with ATA Atelier

Collaborative structure built with reclaimed riverside materials

A self-survey reflecting on our practice, presented every five years

A compilation of authored texts spanning more than a decade, published by Circo de Ideias

A reimagined Angolan national symbol, made in Porto

A reimagined Angolan national symbol, made in Luanda

A coastline in constant negotiation, where land and water collide

A critical installation for the Oslo Architecture Triennale’s After Belonging

An interactive installation tracing the scale and peripheries of Maia

A reflection on colonial legacy and architectural heritage

A curatorial project re-enacting Chicala’s spatial logics with artists Lino Damião and Nelo Teixeira

An exploration of interdisciplinary thinking as a practice of controversy, for the Porto Design Biennale

Speculative visions for reimagining Viaduto Gonçalo Cristóvão, exhibited at Galeria Nuno Centeno

Editorial team member for seven issues of J-A

An Afrofuturist scenography at Milan Design Week, with Batida

A portrait of an urban regeneration process in Monte Xisto

11th Arquiteturas Film Festival, challenging disciplinary knowledge

12th Arquiteturas Film Festival, tracing expanded notions of boundaries

A yearly reflection on INSTITUTO’s approaches and evolution

Participation in Degrowth, Oslo Architecture Triennale

A curated and designed reflection on the intersections of nature and making at INSTITUTO

A behind-the-scenes exhibition on the making of the Portuguese Pavilion

An edited volume advancing decolonial approaches in architecture

A counter-mapping installation and its evolving iterations across cities

An edited book tracing the logics of informal order within and beyond Chicala

A display of the Chicala neighbourhood at true scale, with Luis Damião

A collaborative research cluster generating practical outcomes in Luanda

An edited book tracing the history and urban culture of a Luanda neighbourhood

A sculptural intervention in a public square for the Maia Biennale

A curatorial project at Espaço Mira to mark 40 years of Angolan independence, with José Maia

Design of interactive artworks and exhibition layout for an exhibition by Mónica de Miranda at Galeria da India

A curatorial and exhibition design project exploring mental health and its spatial dimensions at INSTITUTO

9th Arquiteturas Film Festival, pausing to reflect on architecture’s rhythms

A collaborative installation with Kiluanji Kia Henda for the Lagos Triennale, Nigeria

8th Arquiteturas Film Festival, exploring post-colonial identities

10th Arquiteturas Film Festival, centring on the everyday as a site of architecture

Study for a house built under a pool

A retreat rooted in nature, away from city hussle

A rural house carefully renovated for contemporary living

Temporary playground for the Porto Design Biennale, with ATA Atelier

Competition for residential ‘ilha’ renewal, with DK-CM

Apartment renovated into a lived space

Facility for supervised drug consumption

Hospitality retreat in the countryside

Preservation and refurbishment of a heritage complex

Community centre abruptly demolished by the municipality

Proposals for the transformation of the Gonçalo Cristóvão viaduct in the city centre

Memorial to Enslaved People, developed in collaboration with the artist Kiluanji Kia Henda

A symbolic project marking the memory of the Aleixo neighbourhood

Exiled during Angola’s decolonisation, a woman recalls the life she lost and the city she loved 

A short film about two small houses in Luanda and Porto

A journey revealing the reciprocal forces shaping the city

An exhibition presenting the Urban Regeneration Project at Matosinhos City Council

Conversations on Luanda, developed from a podcast into a book, published by Antecâmara

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