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Mara Hollis

Available from Nov

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Mara Hollis

Available from Nov

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(Case study)

Web

2024

Atlas Arquitetos: a site where

the buildings talk.

Atlas is a twelve-person architecture practice in Porto. I designed and built their portfolio site, with a CMS the partners update themselves after every finished project.

Client

Atlas Arquitetos

Role

Web designer and Framer build

Timeline

7 weeks, 2024

Services

Website, CMS

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(01)

Overview

Architects photograph their work with enormous care. Most of their websites then shrink it into a thumbnail grid.

Atlas had award-winning buildings and a site that hid them behind sliders, intro animations and a long studio manifesto. Clients told the partners they had to send PDFs to show their work properly.

We set out to make the photography the interface. Large images, very little chrome and project pages that read like a short walk through each building.

2.6

longer average visit on project pages

2.6

longer average visit on project pages

projects published by the partners themselves

new commissions credited to the site in its first year

Project page layouts, one sheet per building.

Photo reviews with the partners, one room at a time.

(02)

Approach

Three decisions that shaped it.

Photography first

Each project opens on a full-width image and a single line of text. Plans, credits and facts come after the photos, for the visitors who want them.

A grid that breathes

The project index uses one, two and three column rows in a fixed rhythm, so buildings of any proportion sit well together without cropping.

A CMS the partners use

Every project is one CMS entry with clear fields and image guidance. The partners publish a finished building in about twenty minutes.

Light studies for the image-first project grid.

(03)

Outcome

“We finally stopped sending PDFs. The site shows the buildings the way we see them.”

Rui Matos, partner at Atlas Arquitetos

The site launched in autumn 2024. The partners have added more than forty projects since, and the practice now points new clients to the website first instead of a portfolio file.

Design

Mara Hollis

Engineering

Built in Framer

Research

Atlas partners

Copy

Sam Whitaker

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Product

2026

Tessel

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Contact

Have a project in mind?

Tell me what you are building and where it hurts. I reply to every email within two working days.

hello@marahollis.studio

Booking from November 2026. Two project slots left this quarter.