The Shrine of Fatima is the biggest Portuguese Catholic pilgrimage site, concentrating more than 500.000 people when reaching its inflows peak.

In 2005 a new building was ordered to the Greek architect Tombazis.

Invited as a participant designer to the project, I suggested that the visual identification of the apostles doors (12) based itself on the only existing historic document, composed of the biblical quotations. The bronze doors signage was carved in typographic intaglio. The space signage also made use of the architecture, carving into the limestone in intaglio several indications translated in Portuguese and in English.

The adopted principle in this project was to attribute the highest profile to the signage, by interesting it into the architecture. The project also foresaw the design of an inbuilt pictograms family on contrasting woods.