Work with me
Ask the hard question before it becomes an expensive building.
Some organisations need a sharper position on paper. Some need a room full of people to hear the argument out loud. Some need their own team walking away with new questions. I work with all three, differently and on purpose, because the same idea lands differently depending on who is holding the brief.
Clarify the decision.
Strategic briefings and commissioned writing
For leadership teams, care operators, cities and public organisations working through a live question. I bring architecture, care, longevity and demographic change into one frame as a commissioned essay, an executive briefing, a research-grounded position, a seminar, or a written contribution to a live project.
QUESTIONS I AM USUALLY BROUGHT IN ON
How should a care operator think about staff, family care and the future of its estate?
What should a city ask before it treats an empty building as an asset or a problem?
What does an ageing workforce mean for the buildings we already own?
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
A position you can defend, grounded in evidence
Language your organisation can use with boards, planners and design teams
The decision questions that fit your project stage
Move the room
Keynotes and talks
For congresses, professional bodies, universities, employers and public programmes. A talk makes the hidden architecture of care visible. It gives a room language for something people may be living privately but have not yet named collectively.
THEMES
Care is infrastructure. Why the care your workforce already carries is a building question before it is an HR one.
The city does not need more buildings. It needs to re-read the ones it has. What an empty floor and an unmet care need have to do with each other.
To share a space is not to be connected. What separates designed intergenerational contact from a photo opportunity.
Typically 30–45 minutes, followed by questions or a facilitated discussion. Available in English, Spanish or Italian.
Build the brief
Workshops and intergenerational architecture teaching
For organisations with a building to rethink, and for design practices that need to brief one. A workshop turns an abstract idea into shared project questions. A teaching session gives a design practice a working introduction to intergenerational architecture and the research behind it.
Workshop for organisations — A half-day or one-day session built around a real building, workforce issue or local care gap. Participants identify what is already happening, what is missing, and what would have to be understood before a project could proceed.
Intergenerational architecture teaching — A structured one-day session for architecture and design practices. What exists internationally, how intergenerational contact actually works, which regulation and safeguarding requirements reach the floor plan, and how to translate research into an early brief.
WHAT A TEAM LEAVES WITH
A shared vocabulary across care, estates, HR, design and leadership
A first brief or decision map they can take forward
Clarity on whether further site-specific work is justified
The examples exist. The research exists. Almost nobody has walked the path between them. That walk is the teaching.
Formats suit architecture chambers, professional bodies, academic faculties and employer-led programmes. Licensed with the Architektenkammer Berlin.
How an engagement works
Every engagement starts with the same 30-minute orientation call. Scope follows the decision you need to make.
The orientation call. You tell me what you are trying to understand a building, a workforce, a live decision. I ask enough to know what size of response actually fits.
Scoping. Together we size the work against the question itself rather than a rate card.
The work. A briefing can land in a matter of weeks. A workshop series or a longer advisory relationship runs over months.
If you do not yet know which of the three you need, that is exactly what the orientation call is for.
When a real site is ready
A talk or a workshop is how you decide whether a project deserves more work. When an organisation has a real building and a local reason to act, Porto Dome takes over: a paid, structured assessment of that specific site.
Assess your site at portodome.com