Portfolio · the work
Two houses you can open, and one of them is ours.
A courtyard house in Córdoba and the site you are reading right now. Both are published and both can be walked end to end: no mock-ups here, and no screenshots of something that does not exist.
The gallery
The work, open
No mock-ups. Every house below is live: open it in another tab and walk through the whole thing — and under each one we say what was made and what it solves, which is the part you are actually buying.
Casa AzaharDemo · Córdoba
A Córdoba courtyard on a summer day: the street burns and the house closes for the siesta, shutter by shutter. From outside you see all of it, and you book without leaving the page.
What was made. A complete site in three languages — fifteen pages, five per language — with its own mark, palette and a scene drawn for this house alone: the courtyard runs from morning to night as you scroll, and its contrast is measured point by point.
What it solves. Seven rooms and no portal in between. Whoever looks for the house sees all of it without downloading anything and writes without leaving the page: the booking arrives directly, with no commission.
Open the demo
mansio.studioOur own house
The workshop's own house: the site you are reading. Same machine, same locks, same care — whatever does not hold up here does not get built for anyone else.
What was made. Three written languages, not translated; an evening that falls over the canal as you scroll the home page; our own mailbox, wired and checked at every delivery; closed security headers and seventeen quality gates that run before every release.
What it solves. It is the proof that what we sell exists: you can open it, measure it and hold it against what the pricing page promises. A workshop that cannot build its own house has a problem no catalogue will show you.
Open the siteScreenshots taken from the live sites with the same browser at the same width, August 2026 — not redrawn, not retouched. The day a screenshot and its site stop matching, the screenshot is the one that is wrong.
One, all the way
Casa Azahar, from the first line to a published site
In the hand
Where it is actually decided: the phone
Guests search on a phone, often late at night. That is where a house is made or lost: one glance, one thumb, one button.
- The same site: there is no separate mobile version left to rot.
- Contrast is measured on the pixel, at both widths: all thirty-six points of the scene, above the line.
- No cookie wall to dismiss first: there is nothing here to consent to.
To be straight with you: Casa Azahar is not a client: it is a house we invented — seven rooms around an 1871 courtyard — so we could show a whole commission without asking anyone's permission. The second entry is this studio itself. The day a real hotel is published it will be here under its own name and its own domain, and this note will say so. A booking engine is part of the job when the hotel wants one: in these two houses the button shows the gesture, it does not charge for a night.
The brief
What a small hotel actually needs
A hotel with ten rooms has no marketing department. It needs a site that holds up on the phone of someone looking for a room at half past eleven at night, and a way to lock that room in immediately.
Most small hotels solve that with a button to a portal. It works – and it costs a percentage of every booking, plus the guest who drops out halfway because they are suddenly somewhere else. We wanted to know how far you get when the booking simply lives in the site.
Our part
What we did
From the first sketch to the alarm that goes off if something breaks six months later.
- Identity and design: colour, type, rhythm and the home page's own gesture.
- Every line of copy, written in three languages. Written, not translated.
- The site built by hand — no template, no page builder.
- The house's mailbox, wired and checked at every delivery; and the site watched from outside every five minutes: if it goes down, an alarm goes off.
- Seventeen quality gates before every release: weight, contrast, keyboard and three real browsers.
- Published, measured, and maintained ever since.
Your hotel belongs here.
We take on a small number of projects at a time, so every house gets the attention a portfolio deserves.