With House of Echoes, artist and architect Didier Fiúza Faustino reinterprets the typical northern espigueiro (granary), a familiar landmark of the Portuguese landscape and an example of an architecture without architect. Faustino enhances its naive shape — a box with six feet and a roof — and uses recycled materials to propose a sound capsule that works as a venue for music education, a public recording studio, and a stage for concerts and DJ sets.

Designed specifically for the Alameda das Fontaínhas, one of the city’s oldest and most distinctive neighbourhoods overlooking the Douro, House of Echoes is a piece of micro-architecture dedicated to sonic exploration in public space. Here, listening to, making, and recording music are activities open to the community, fostering creativity, knowledge exchange, and urban renewal.

The programme is brought to life through collaborations with faculties of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and through events under the artistic direction of Lovers & Lollypops.