About
Architecture & engineering, under one roof.
DOME — integrated architecture & engineering responds to the current needs of construction companies, service providers and end clients. With an experienced team, we provide a complete, integrated service, coordinated across every project — shortening timelines, ensuring greater efficiency and minimising costs and unforeseen work.
In recent years we have developed projects in Portugal and Angola, at various scales — across architecture, urban design and the various specialities, including housing, services, industry, healthcare, public facilities and interior design.
Each project receives the attention of a multidisciplinary team — architects, engineers, site planners and 3D modellers — guided by the specifics of the place and the brief, in permanent dialogue with the client.
Our mission
To root, to create place, to conceive spaces for living — for your life.
An interpretation of the idea of dwelling, where socialisation, intimacy and service connect and give form to the habitable space of everyday life — firmitas (stability), utilitas (function) and venustas (beauty). (Vitruvius, De Architectura)
A contribution to human development, in its social and cultural dimension, through the many facets of the architect's work, whose outcome concerns the notion of the whole.
Calculation, technique and plastic intent run through our work, from the germination of the integrated architecture and engineering project to the final completion of the building — harmoniously inscribed in the urban fabric, sustainably in the territory, and adding value to art and craft.
Our vision
We conceive architecture as the art of creating habitable environments, balanced and integrated into the global space, advocating the democratisation of architectural work. Here it takes shape as an instrument for promoting individual quality of life and the expression and socio-cultural prosperity of a people.
For DOME and its collaborators, the result of our work must reflect the concepts of project, social habit, lived experience, land-use legislation and economy. We therefore approach the architectural problem in a creative, distinctive and contextualised way — where form, dimension, texture, colour, light and shadow are grounded in proportion, rhythm, repetition, contrast and harmony.
Our values
Rigour
We foster professional rigour within an interdisciplinary team of qualified professionals across various fields, motivated and geared towards precision and consistency in the art of craftsmanship.
Commitment
We are committed to developing client-centred work, guided by responsibility, trust, excellence, innovation, credibility, co-creation, sustainability, consistency, flexibility and reliability.
Integrity
We act in accordance with the code of professional ethics and conduct, valuing transparency, impartiality, fairness, honesty, courtesy and respect for the client — through effective communication and respect for confidentiality.
Competence
Professional conscience, technical competence and the defence of the good name of the various professional categories result in the holistic vision, experience and dedication of our teams — across the different stages of the architectural project, the construction and the life of the building.
Ambition
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” — Henry Ford
Coming together, shared growth and the quality of our work are — and will be — the driving force for building professional relationships with our clients, collaborators, partners, investors, suppliers and community. We work daily towards the continuous improvement of our work, with new ideas, processes and solutions that make the most of the natural systems and cycles of the sun, wind and rain.
“In the end, what we seek is client satisfaction and the accumulation of experience needed for our growth.”