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Models before renders: inside our workshop

We still build physical models for every project. Here is why cardboard and plaster tell us things a screen cannot.

Written by

Leonor Vaz

Interior architect

Every Lunaro project passes through the workshop at least three times: as a massing model, as a light model and as a detail model.

Light models

A 1:20 model with a real lamp tells you more about a room in ten minutes than a week of renders. We photograph them with the same 35 mm camera we use on site.

Clients understand models

Nobody needs training to read a model. Clients pick it up, look inside and tell us immediately what feels wrong.

Studio

Rua da Boavista 84
1200-066 Lisbon, Portugal
Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00

Site notes

One letter each season — new work, drawings and notes from site. No noise.

Lunaro.

© 2026 Lunaro Architects, Lda.

© 2026 Lunaro Architects, Lda.

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