"The architect only starts what time and other continue. Entropic time is seen not as an affront, but as a partner in a process of design that continues long after the architecture has left the scene."
Jeremy Till

After Siza originates from the experience of moving to the Bouça Housing Estate in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira. Living in this place on a daily basis sparked an interest in the ways architecture continues to be transformed after its completion through the needs, habits and choices of those who inhabit it.

No project remains exactly as it was conceived. Once inhabited, it begins to incorporate the needs, habits and choices of its occupants. Over time, spaces are transformed, reinterpreted and used in different ways, gradually moving away from their original conception without ever completely breaking away from it.

Through domestic interiors and shared spaces, this photographic essay explores what happens to architecture once it is inhabited. The photographs trace different forms of appropriation that coexist in the estate today, seeking to understand architecture not as a finished object but as a reality continuously reshaped through everyday life.

The essay brings together fragments of different forms of appropriation observed in Bouça. The dwellings photographed represent only part of a broader reality, yet they reveal different ways of inhabiting that coexist at a moment when the estate reflects processes of social reconfiguration affecting the city of Porto and many other Portuguese cities. Rather than privileging one form of appropriation over another, the project observes them as contemporary expressions of an architecture that continues to be shaped by the life it accommodates.