MASSLAB is a progressive and contemporary design studio engaged in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and comprehensive planning, focusing on designing for a hopeful future.

Regarding what´s important – impact, planet, people, viability, the company is dedicated to developing solutions to create a better everyday life.

Through a planet-people approach, we are building the conditions for a better future, because changing how people live, will always change the world.

From buildings to public space, from urban planning to furniture design, the office the creative direction includes social, functional, economic, and environmental issues that are integrated into the different scales of each project. In a constantly changing world, every project is translated into possibilities. MASSLAB is permanently motivated to find them.

Founded in 2016, the Porto-based office team is made up of people from different nationalities. The result of this dynamic environment is an enriching mix of distinctive professional, educational, and cultural backgrounds, that influence every project based on diverse insights and new perspectives.

Not believing in individual work, MASSLAB is constantly establishing strategic collaborations with specialists from several professional fields and geographies, to come up always with new insights. MASSLAB has already teamed up with specialists from Portugal, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands.

In a short time, MASSLAB achieved national and international recognition through international competition wins, with special emphasis on the Nordic countries.

Aiming to improve well-being and enrich the human experience, the company’s portfolio includes all sorts of projects between Portugal and Scandinavia, with collective living buildings, student housing, industrial renovations, urban developments, and ongoing masterplans, progressing in the path of architectural innovation, while rethinking the city and the urban environment.