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We’re an urban fabric repair shop focused on New Urbanism, sustainability, and building resilient communities. We bridge design and development to deliver places people love, wise with resources, rich in public life, and rooted in real markets.

Our work ranges from urban and architectural design to pre-development analysis, feasibility studies, financial modeling, and public engagement. We serve cities and municipalities pursuing sustainable visions and walkable streets, small and mid-scale developers and landowners who seek strong design and public support, and neighborhoods in need of adaptive reuse and revitalization.
Our approach is incremental and place-led, learning from context and community. We balance financial return with public good, working with materials, infrastructure, and development strategies that are durable, adaptable, and resilient.

Cities built without care for human scale, sustainability, and resilient infrastructure risk heavy maintenance, disconnected communities, and neglected public spaces. At Fabric, we believe repair is the new development. Strong infrastructure isn’t just roads and wires, it’s pattern, walkability, ecology, and social glue. We design for that.








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Rafael Campos de Pinho graduated as an architect and urban planner in 2004 from EA-UFMG in Brazil, where he received the Grand Prix at the Opera Prima competition. He then completed an MA in Real Estate at the Faculty of Economics, University of Barcelona. After gaining experience at architectural firms in Brazil and Iceland until 2008, Rafael shifted to advertising, collaborating with major agencies in Brazil and Europe, and winning many awards including two Cannes Lions. In 2016, he pivoted back to architecture with an architect-led development project for affordable housing in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The following year, he founded Fabric (formerly RCDP Arkitektar), a design and development practice based in Reykjavík. In 2018, the firm won its first request for proposals with an innovative approach for a 60-unit affordable housing project in central Reykjavík. By 2024, the firm expanded overseas with projects in Spain and the USA. Rafael is also a regular collaborator with Miami-based Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company.



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