Inês Marques trained as a stonemason before she trained as an architect, and still visits every site with a trowel in the car.
Meridian Architecture Studio — Lisbon
We design houses, renovations, and small public rooms from a studio in Chiado, working slowly toward buildings that feel like they were always there.
Every decision defers to the wall that already stands, the wind off the Atlantic, the hour the sun enters a room.
01 — Casa Príncipe Real
We removed four decades of partition walls to find the original ceiling heights, then rebuilt only what the family needed to live there again.
Residential renovation
Old plaster, old light, old floors that have earned their unevenness. We keep what still works and rebuild only where the building asks us to.
Coastal new builds
On the coast we orient toward wind before we orient toward view, and choose materials that are meant to weather rather than resist it.
02 — House at Comporta
Timber and lime render sit low against the rice paddies, the roofline pitched to match the tree line rather than compete with it.
Cultural and civic spaces
Libraries, reading rooms, a chapel — scaled to a street corner, not a skyline, and built to be borrowed by daily life.
Interior architecture
A door handle, a stair rail, the grain of a kitchen counter — we design interiors as an extension of the building's structure, not a layer over it.
03 — Reading Room, Tavira
Commissioned by the municipality, the room holds forty seats and one long window aligned to the winter solstice light.
The partners
Inês Marques trained as a stonemason before she trained as an architect, and still visits every site with a trowel in the car.
Rui Almada spent a decade restoring convents for the state before founding Meridian, and reads every drawing standing up.
Chiado, Lisbon