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The Practice

AC|D — Ana Costa | Design

An atelier working across interiors, stages, exhibitions, pop-up, installations, light, sound and fashion — each project built as a single charged thing that begins in charcoal black, the reaction chosen by the work. What disappears can still be remembered.

Work

One method.
Many arts.

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Interiors

Interiors that read as singular objects.

Rooms conceived as one charged thing — begun in charcoal black, the reaction chosen by the space; material, light and sound decided as a single gesture. An interior that holds one image, not many.

Scope — concept · materials · light · site supervisionIn the editions — Casa Prisma · Casa Ajour · Casa Astral · Penumbra Office
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Stages & Concerts

Architecture for the live moment.

Stages and scenic devices engineered around one peak and a deliberate end — what the audience keeps. Temporary by design: fast to raise, faster to return.

Scope — concept · technical drawings · production liaison
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Exhibitions

Scenography that frames other work.

Circulation, rhythm, dark and reveal — scenography that serves the work on show without competing with it. The exhibition as a journey with one ignition, not a corridor of objects.

Scope — curatorial dialogue · design · opening
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Pop-up & Retail

Temporary, singular, gone.

Spaces that trade permanence for memory: singular, charged, gone on schedule. Built to be struck and returned — remembered longer than they stood.

Scope — concept · build · strikeIn the editions — Loja Pop-up Zouri
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Installations

Site-specific, in time. Flagship: AC|D 4.

Site-specific objects in time — the atelier's flagship territory. AC|D 4, a four-metre cube for Terreiro do Paço, is its manifesto: subtraction as spectacle.

Scope — concept · engineering gates · activation
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Light & Objects

Luminaires and editions as autonomous pieces.

Luminaires and editions as autonomous pieces — small numbered series, material-honest, each begun in black with one reaction of its own.

Scope — design · prototyping · fabricationIn the editions — PonteLuz
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Sound

Original scores for spaces, events and advertising.

Tactile before audible — the low pulse felt in the body before the ear agrees. Composed for the room and the moment, never for the playlist.

Scope — composition · spatialisation · show integration
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Fashion

Garments as continuation of space.

The same method, worn: a single charged thing, begun in black, finished by the one who wears it — AC|D + you, stitched as a line left blank. First body of work in creation — see the lookbook ↓

Scope — first collection · in creation
Fashion · in creation

Garments as continuation of space.

A first body of work where clothing extends the same method as the rooms and the objects — a single charged thing, begun in black, the reaction chosen by the piece.

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AC|D +

Never only ours.

Nothing AC|D makes is finished by AC|D alone. A space, an object, a book, a garment, a moment — each is completed by the one who lives it. So no creation is ever only ours; across everything we make there is always a line left blank for your name. AC|D + you.

AC|D + — woven labels, the line left blank
The tag — a line left blank
ACD+your name
Flagship · The Cube
AC|D 4 — the object
The Object — AC|D 4

AC|D 4

A four-metre cube of absolute black with one red interior. A single ephemeral activation. The object disappears; what it does to you does not.

4 × 4 × 4 m · aluminium + LED
Terreiro do Paço · Lisboa · 2027
Red — the acid, the threshold
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The film · what plays inside — sound on
Corrode the obvious.
Install memory.
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The editions.

The atelier's editorial system — an ongoing series, each edition opening as a flipbook.

Contact

Start a reaction.

For projects, editions and collaborations.

StudioLisboa, Portugal
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You will know
when you feel it again.

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Five Days Dark — the novel by Ana Costa