Correia / Ragazzi Arquitectos

More than rely on operations of conceptual character, we believe our architecture to be based on the conviction that the identity of each project is determined by the incorporation of its origin’s specificities and the conception process. Ignoring the possible continuity of its aesthetic, this conviction allows the investment on the same themes, without compromising the particular quality of each work.

We also believe plastic possibilities of materials to be fascinating and therefore should be introduced as aesthetic means, without questioning the programmatic aspects of its constructive logic.

The outline of our projects has no origin only on the issues of constructive nature as on the aesthetic considerations related to them. Appearance and vision are determinant for a building’s silhouette. Materials, in our opinion, have its place somewhere but not under personal good taste.

Detail is important for the definition of the work’s global cohesion and we give as much importance to the detail of a door as to the organization of the whole; architecture is based on a system of relations where, at the end, all elements intervene.