Lisbon / Oslo
38°43′ N — 59°54′ N
Est. 1998
Maridor is an architecture studio between Lisbon and Oslo. We design houses, pavilions and public rooms composed for the night as carefully as for the day.
Taking 2027 commissions
01 — Manifesto
We believe a building is only finished when the lights come on. For twenty-six years we have drawn every project twice — once at noon, once at midnight — and let the second drawing decide.
24
Buildings completed since 1998
11
Countries with a Maridor building
0
Projects shown only in daylight
02 — Selected work
Eight buildings, seen after dark.
03 — Studio hours
How a project spends the night.
18:00
Brief
We listen first: the site, the people and the hours you will really spend there.
21:00
Sketch
Pools of light are drawn before walls. The plan grows around them.
00:00
Model
A 1:50 model lit by one LED, reviewed with you in a darkened room.
03:00
Detail
Every fixture, joint and finish is drawn, specified and tested at night.
06:00
Handover
We commission the lighting on site and stay for the first evening.
04 — Disciplines
Five crafts, one sense of light.
05 — Recognition
Noticed at night, too.
Mies van der Rohe Award
Architizer A+ Awards
Wallpaper* Design Awards
Prémio Secil de Arquitectura
Statens Byggeskikkpris
Dezeen Awards
06 — The archive
Every building, after dark and by day.
07 — The night shift
Twenty-two people, two cities, one table.
08 — Journal
Notes written after dark.
Essay
7 min read
Designing for the hour after sunset
Most buildings are judged at noon and lived in at night. Inês Maridor on why we draw every project twice — and what the second drawing changes.
Materials
5 min read
Forty-one shades of black
Black is never just black. Amara Okafor opens her swatch box and explains how lime, oak and bronze behave under a single warm lamp.
Process
4 min read
A model lit by a single LED
Lena Vik builds every 1:50 model with one hidden light inside. It is the most honest test a design can face.
Let’s light the next one.
Tell us about your site, your evenings and the light you remember. We reply within two working days.