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Architecture · Porto, Portugal

Studio NorthlineSN

Studio Northline

Since 2011 · Website

Amber light under a black steel roof on a Lisbon plaza at night.

About

Studio Northline draws public rooms for clients who usually commission objects. The practice is small, based in Porto, and suspicious of renderings that arrive before a plan.

With Lumora, the studio insisted the chargers disappear into the structure of a plaza people would use with empty hands.

Clips and notes

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Section through the roof

The section is published at a size you can actually read. Northline annotates the shadow at June noon and the light at January dusk. The cable run is a dotted line, deliberately dull.

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Walk the edge

A camera at shoulder height crosses the plaza once. You hear shoes on wet stone and a bus somewhere else. The pavilion arrives as a change in temperature and light, not as a reveal shot.