We wanted to create a space that tells its own story. It makes visible the materials and energy that keep it functioning, and it suggests new ways of designing our homes that make creative use of the past for a more sustainable future.
Lenka Holcnerová, Pavla Šimková, Tarık Dindar
Lenka Holcnerová is a Lisbon-based architect and director of the architecture office Atelier Holcnerova. She specializes in urban reconstructions and explores the connections between energy sources and the structure of cities. Her diploma work Between Ocean and Land focused on intersections between energy production and public space, a theme she continues to develop in her architectural practice.
Pavla Šimková is an environmental historian based in Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on North American and Central European environmental history, island studies, and the environmental history of cities. Her first book, Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands (2021), explored how cities shape and connect to their ecological surroundings.
Tarık Dindar is an architect based in Bursa, Turkey. Throughout his university years, he actively participated in numerous architectural competitions and served as a rapporteur in architecture juries. He has worked in architecture studios both in Turkey and Portugal, first as an intern and later as a licensed architect. He is currently working with Atelier Holcnerová in Lisbon.