Corpo Atelier is an architecture and art studio based in southern Portugal, working at the intersection of spatial construction and artistic experimentation. Founded in 2014 by Filipe Paixão, the practice explores architecture not as a fixed discipline, but as an evolving field of fragments, gestures, and reinterpretations of its fundamental elements.

The studio’s work moves fluidly between built projects, speculative proposals, and artistic production—where each becomes both a tool and a consequence of the other. Architectural artifacts and accidental objects coexist within the same process, allowing ideas to emerge through making, deconstructing, and reassembling.

Rooted in a deep investigation of walls, façades, ceilings, and structural systems, Corpo Atelier challenges conventional readings of architecture. Elements are cut, displaced, fragmented, or exaggerated—revealing new spatial relationships and questioning the boundaries between interior and exterior, structure and ornament, function and narrative.

Through this approach, the studio constructs a body of work that is both rigorous and experimental—where architecture becomes a medium for critical inquiry, and where each project operates as an open-ended exploration of form, material, and meaning.