The starting point
A studio that designs, builds and furnishes.
COVOS Arquitectos has been building since 1998: houses, renovations and buildings in the gated communities of Buenos Aires, on the coast and in Punta del Este. Gabriel and Tatiana Covos keep architecture, construction and interiors in the same hands and see every house through from the first drawing to the keys.
The studio came with its identity already in place — a brand manual, its logos and its typeface. The new site had to hold the whole body of work, be easy for the studio to update, and turn interest in a house into a message on WhatsApp or by mail.
The approach
Designed from references, measured one by one.
Before any layout, we gathered reference sites and wrote down what to take from each one: a slow photo reveal, a vertical project index, a photo grid with a logo intro, home layouts with more air and more white, a quiet studio page.
Each reference got its own sheet with easing, duration and grid measured, so the site reproduces the feel instead of guessing at it — from the two-second wipe that reveals each photo to the pill menu at the bottom of the screen.
Visual system
Large type, real photographs, a quiet palette.
One typeface family in three weights, on a scale that runs from small print to display, with headlines that rise line by line and display type carrying the name of every page and every house. Wide margins and generous space between sections give the work room.
The colour comes from the brand: white, a cream paper, sand, stone, earth and ink. The studio's own photographs do the rest — they reveal as you scroll and take turns on the home page — and the menu changes its tone with the background.
The archive
Every project, filtered by type, place and status.
The archive filters by type — house, renovation, buildings, institutional — by location and by projects still under construction, in one row that stays fixed while you scroll. Each option shows how many projects it would leave, and the ones that would leave none are disabled.
It reads as a list or as a grid. In the list each row opens with photos, a short text and the project's details; the grid shows every cover at once. Filters live in the link, so a search can be shared, and "Where we build" on the home page goes straight to each place.
Each house
One page per house, run by the studio.
Each house opens on its cover and follows with a gallery that alternates pairs, full-bleed images, offset compositions and trios. The details list location, area, year, scope and status, and the page closes with "Want a project like this one?" and a message that already names the house.
Behind the site, a private panel lets the studio add and edit projects — texts in Spanish and English, location, type, status and which ones show on the home page. Photos are resized before they upload, and the whole site also runs in English.