Our history
HISTORY & OBJECTIVES
Cut Out was born out of a creative and experimental impulse, with the purpose of promoting culture, activating synergies between métiers and people from different creative, scientific and cultural areas, such as design, architecture, illustration, carpentry, biology, oenology and history.
Cut Out is an Experimental Laboratory, which aims to found a platform for the creative use of technology in design, architecture, and other artistic fields.
With a strong ecological and environmental concern, all the techniques and materials used are chosen and worked with care.
By promoting its activities through the sale of parts and the provision of services, Cut Out is made up of three parts:
. CUT OUT - BRAND - creator of products with the signature of Cut Out;
. CUT OUT - FABLAB - anonymous products; personalized orders; complementary products from other brands;
. CUT OUT - SHOP - platform (digital) that allows the sharing and sale of parts.
Our Space
Drawing Rooms
Spacious spaces flooded with light, with areas dedicated to both hand and computer design and the production of small models and prototypes.
Library
Understood as an experimental practice, study and investigation are fundamental components of our work. That is why we consider the opportunity to work in spaces with all the bibliography that we have collected over the years to be valuable.
Workshop and Carpentry
Our studio is equipped with all the infrastructure and equipment necessary for the manufacture and production of prototypes and models. We have a woodworking carpentry and a workshop with a wide range of carpentry tools and computer controlled equipment: 3D printers, CNC and laser cutting machine.
garden
For us, outer space is of crucial importance. In addition to being able to use it as areas of enjoyment and inspiration with our animals, it allows us to expand the work areas whenever necessary.
Our Team
Mario Ortega
Workaholic (compulsive worker) and systematic, with an experimental impulse, interest shared by a group of creative areas and admiration for insects.
Mário Ortega studied architecture at FAUP (Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto) between 2009 and 2016.
In 2013, under the Erasmus program, he moved to Paris where he attended ENSA-PM (École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture of Paris-Malaquais). In 2014, he collaborated, for a year, with the Swiss office Harry Gugger Studio, in Basel.
He joined MorphoPolis in 2016, since that time he coordinates and develops architectural projects of various scales and typologies.
In 2019, he founded Cut Out.
João Ortega
The importance of the place.
The right to inhabit a territory.
Between 1980 and 1985 I attended architecture, first at ESBAL and then at FAUL.
In 1999, he founded MorphoPolis and for more than a decade he led a multidisciplinary team that changed the way of being in the profession in the region.
Mentor of the creation of RIONOR, consolidating learning of being in a territory as a place for the apprehension of the World.
In a course with some paths already taken, Cut Out must mean consolidation and coherence with what has been learned and the starting point for the unknown.
Mario Ortega
Workaholic (compulsive worker) and systematic, with an experimental impulse, interest shared by a group of creative areas and admiration for insects.
Mário Ortega studied architecture at FAUP (Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto) between 2009 and 2016.
In 2013, under the Erasmus program, he moved to Paris where he attended ENSA-PM (École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture of Paris-Malaquais). In 2014, he collaborated, for a year, with the Swiss office Harry Gugger Studio, in Basel.
He joined MorphoPolis in 2016, since that time he coordinates and develops architectural projects of various scales and typologies.
In 2019, he founded Cut Out.
Partnerships
People, artists and companies who collaborate with us regularly or with whom we develop joint projects.
