When it comes to architecture, scale is inevitably mentioned for graphic and two-dimensional representation of the built area, land size, and city extension. Architecture is a grand discipline with robust constructions and large areas, but the field of action is vast, encompassing "smaller" scales: essential housing, restricted land, and small cities.
The small city of Caruaru in Pernambuco hosts Jirau. Operating since 2010 and directed by Bernardo Lopes and Paulo Patriota, the office creates original architecture in a restricted context. It is a design thought that alternates and relates scales understood as opposites. This results in an architecture different from that conveyed and disseminated and a broader formal repertoire.
