Pedreira Terraces

The quarry face stays. Below it, terraces hold rainwater long enough for cork oak and strawberry trees to establish.

The site in Braga set the terms before we drew anything. Rock, heat and no soil. The first two years of the project were about making ground.

A shelter at the entrance holds a kiosk and stores; the rest is path, wall and planting.

We worked from a 1:50 model for most of the design stage and kept it on site through construction. Where the model and the drawings disagreed, the model usually won.