CAS Studio

Light Shaped by Nature

The ocean covers most of our planet.
It regulates climate. When it changes, everything changes.
It’s warming and becoming more acid.
Shells and corals are struggling.

Spending time in the ocean made it real.
The sea stopped being a postcard and became a teacher.

This lamp started there: a nautilus-inspired form.
Printed in biobased PLA, made locally, one at a time.
Each piece unique. No stock, no waste.

First piece of the series.

(Nautilus Lamp, by CAS Studio)

Architecture that reveals the place.

What drives and inspire us:
Climate. Material. Craft. Context.

Álvaro Siza’s Leça Tide Pool (1966) and Boa Nova Tea House (1963) show this principle clearly.
There, the building does not try to stand above nature.

It responds to it because the rocks were there first.
The wind and the horizon were there first.

Architecture isn’t about imposing form.
It’s about working with what already exists and revealing the place through the building.