Margarida Matos
2024 Margarida Matos | hello.margaridamatos@gmail.com
Policronica (former Studio Combo) won the competition to design the interiors of Backmarket’s office in Bordeaux, located in a building in the newly refurbished Bacalan area next to Bassins a Flot. The studio has designed and built the furniture and interior spaces, although not intervening in the building itself. The team designed, built and tested the prototypes of equipment such as tables, bubbles and boxes, using mainly wood and reusing waste materials whenever possible, following Backmarket’s concept of recycling.
Architect and designer, interested in crafting and communicating sustainable futures the built environment through adaptive reuse, heritage preservation and spatial design.
Spatial designer @ TOYNO studio, 2023-present
Architect @ Policronica,2021-2023
Architect @ Palácio do Grilo, 2020
Exhibition and workshop assistant @ Lisbon Architecture Trienalle, 2019
Research Assistant for Arch. Carlos Mourão Pereira, 2018-2019
Hôtel Elysée-Montmartre, Building of the Year 2025 Winner in Hospitality, with Policronica.
Hôtel Elysée-Montmartre, finalist of Dezeen Awards 2024 in Interiors, with Policronica.
Palácio do Grilo, Prix de Versailles 2023
User Experience Design Ironhack, 2023
MsC Architecture ULisboa, 2019
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