In general, the objectives of this research will be to rethink the architectural production systems, in light of sustainability principles regarding efficiency, adaptation and adequacy; as well as to advocate for a situation in which the exploitation of endogenous resources leads to a greater cultural autonomy. and ecological diversity.

Specifically, we propose to develop a matrix that includes these same principles within both the teaching and design practices, with the aim of developing a self-sufficient, sustainable and participatory architecture, based on the living-building model.

The interventions that have been conducted in economically disadvantaged communities in disaster situations does not take into account their traditional way of life. In these situations, as a survival imperative, people tend to leave the territory breaking their ties to the place. The Speranza project seeks to conceptualize and give greater scope to the practical expression of architecture with predominantly ecological bias, considering aspects related to the environment in its relationship with the living culture, knowledge and application of building techniques with lower impact.

​Propose a rural spatial planning model that contributes to the prevention of rural fires, taking into account the ecological, economic and social sustainability of the landscape.

The goal of this Project is to propose a Potential Land Use Plan for Continental Portugal, taking into naccount the ecological landsuitability for the establishment of different activities and the current land use. The approach will be in the light of work thathas already been produced within the Landscape Architecture Research Centre “Prof. Caldeira Cabral” (CEAP), FCT Project “National Ecological Network (NEN) - a proposal of mapping and policies” [PTDC/AUR-URB/102578/2008] concluded in 2013.

The research project "Sea Architectures", funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology between 2011 and 2014, intended to understand the nature of the changes to which the territory of the Portuguese coast was submitted to (particularly in Arrábida Maritime Coast and the Eastern Algarve Coast), from an ecological, economic, and social point of view. In the end, the intent was to present a model of analysis and diagnosis of the coastal areas that would serve as a basis for a set of integrated intervention proposals (in their use, landscape framing, and architectural rehabilitation).

The Monastery research project is an investigation to establish an appropriate methodology for the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary. The project ensures the development of an architecture project which complies several specialties for the implementation of materials and construction systems, with high environmental value and low consumption energy, according to the principles of “natural architecture”.

The Architecture After Hours research project aims to study the different forms of spatial appropriation of the urban space during the night, comparing the significant aspects of human activity, in their cultural and social expressions. The research team would like to determine the condition, in its various typologies, that the night use will impose on urban design scale and building design, in their institutional, symbolic and ephemeral expression.

"Pro-Villages – Repopulate the Countryside " is a proposed research project starting in 2015 with the aim to develop a Strategic Base Project that, based on a model of sustainable rural exploration, determines the base conditions to repopulate depopulated villages.

In the general development scheme of the insular European states there is always a decisive component, sometimes the most important in the sense that it implies a specific structuring of the productive processes, the offer of goods and services, distribution of investment and logic of production and consumption by tourism. For a range of economical issues to the construction of the self image of a community, the Roots of Counterculture research project becomes urgent to proceed with the analysis of those processes to which these communities were subjected in the last half century.

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All constructive human activity can and should be seen primarily as an intervention in the environment: building, is always artificial, which implies a new order, or at least the destruction of a natural order, replacing the previous one. The Survival XXI project, a partnership with the City of Lisbon seeks to empower the most disadvantaged sections of society with technical tools for autonomous and sustainable construction.