Overview
For those making a home here, a constellation of two-, three-, even four-bedroom houses are spaced out among the pines. High-end apartments flank either side of the enclave; these are the pieds-à-terre, the getaways, and the guest houses. At the center of the center, you find the Aroeira Collections’ Hotel; a resort for visitors and a resource for the community.
Aroeira is easy to get to; across the bridge from the capital and on the southern end of a sandy stretch known as the Costa da Caparica.
Architect Ana Costa
As one walks the path up to the Hotel, one can see right through to the landscape beyond — the elevated design leaves the scenery uninterrupted.
Atelier Bugio — João Favila Menezes
The development is really a kind of healing process for the land.
Pedro Domingos Architects
Built from materials that reflect the local environment, like the rest of Aroeira Collections by Missoni, these houses don’t just blend in with the local topography — they make full use of it.
graduated in Architecture from the Lisbon Escola Superior de Belas Artes in 1983 and earned a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley in 1985. She began her career in California, collaborating with studios in San Francisco and leading projects for PIXAR and NEXT. Returning to Portugal in 1988, she established her own practice and joined Universidade Lusíada as Assistant Professor. From 1991, she worked alongside her father at Atelier Daciano da Costa on key projects such as the interiors of the Belém Cultural Centre and the Casa da Música furniture.
Since 2005, she leads the studio Ana Costa arquitectura e design, overseeing projects across scales and geographies, including corporate buildings in Brazil and cultural landmarks in Lisbon. Her recent work focuses on the rehabilitation of historic buildings, such as the Estação Sul e Sueste and Soho House Lisbon. Her practice is defined by a rigorous, detail-driven approach rooted in design excellence and craftsmanship.
Atelier Bugio
Graduated in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1992, João Favila Menezes is partner and coordinating architect at Atelier Bugio since 1998. He has taught at the University of Évora, the University of Lisbon, and the Autonomous University of Lisbon. His work, mainly in housing and tourism, includes award-winning projects such as the Estalagem da Quinta da Casa Branca, the Hotel do Porto Santo expansion, and the Praia do Canal Nature Resort. His projects have earned national and international recognition, including nominations for the Mies van der Rohe and Secil Awards.
His work has been exhibited in Milan, London, Barcelona, and Venice, and most recently in Lisbon at the Aires Mateus Archive with the project “General Plan for Soft Access to the Castle Hill”.
Pedro Domingos Architects
Architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (1992). Guest lecturer at the University of Évora between 2006 and 2012, at Universidade Lusíada between 1999 and 2008, and since 2018 at the Integrated Master’s in Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon. He collaborated with architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça between 1988 and 1997 and has run his own studio since 2002. His work has been published and featured in various national and international exhibitions.
His architectural practice has been recognised with several national and international awards. Notably, in 2017 he was shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award; in 2016 and 2021 he was a finalist for the FAD Architecture Prize; in 2013 and 2022 he received the FAD Architecture Prize; in 2022 he won the first edition of the Forma Prize, and in 2023 the first edition of the Architecture in Alentejo Prize.