An apartment used as a leather tannerie workshop for a long time. This use aggressiveness destroyed its character and the features of the pombalino architectonic imaginary were lost.
The original apartment had a characteristic structure of the time, with a long corridor for the distribution of the different spaces, quite compartmentalized.
The customer’s only requirements were to maintain the existing T2 typology and to respect the budget ceiling – one of the project’s challenges.
The first thing that made sense in an area-constrained apartment consisted of \”dissolving\” the long corridor that marked the spatial organization-functioning as the skeleton of the house-and giving it a function.
Article source: P-06 Atelier + Site Specific Arquitectura
This project is the result of a creative process in which architecture and design worked together to make a global renovation of this museum dedicated to the life and worship of Saint Anthony (Santo António), by restoring the old building, developing the exhibition design and also the environmental graphics. The exterior intervention was designed with the primary goal of reinforcing the visibility of the museum in order to announce it more effectively, and also to create a clear visual separation between the two buildings that shape the square (the church and the building where the entrance of the museum is located).Inside the museum, the main concern was to make a global intervention that is felt as something that stands out from the existing architecture (the dark grey enhances that idea), yet with an effective integration on the space’s original geometry and volumes (due to the curve shapes of the newly built display structures). Throughout the museum, the display of pieces and paintings is exclusively made on these structures, that contain several lit niches combined with graphics directly printed on the surfaces (inspired on the idea of “shrine” that relates with this museum’s theme). The global reading of these “reinvented shrines” on the space, gives a continuous exhibition flow that guides the visitor through the narrative sequence.
Set in a Lisbon neighbourhood from the thirties, the apartment occupies the last two floors of a building, benefiting from views that from northeast are headed by urban landscape and from southeast, in turn, are dominated by great canopies of trees that inhabit a secular garden near by the building.
The strategic position of the apartment due to his urban context in articulation with domestic space issues prompted the project to focus on the following principles:
Article source: STC – SAMUEL TORRES DE CARVALHO – ARQUITETURA
The building in question has its access made by two streets at different levels, the main access being through Rua do Corpo Santo and the secondary through Rua do Ferragial, which is at a height of 7 meters. This difference originates two semi-buried floors, below the ground of Rua do Corpo Santo.
Located in Av. da Liberdade. Lisbon´s luxury stores destination, Liberdade 40 is a retrofitting project that results of the rehabilitation of a former office building with an inefficient use, into 16 modern, exclusive and minimalist apartments. This project allowed the closing of the outer arcade, wining critical square meters for the developer.
This profound rehabilitation with an emphasis on the neutral colors and modern straight lines, deeply transformed this 1980s’ building now featuring a cosmopolitan discretion that makes all the difference.
To intervene in a generous apartment, designed in 1950 by Cassiano Branco, can be a delicate job. With a generous built area of 310 m2 and innovative built solution for the time, the apartment presents three distinct areas – services, social and private.
Seventy years after its completion and never used as housing, it presents some lack of character and in need of modernization, both in terms of comfort standards as well as adaptation to new desires.
The apartment was visibly disfigured and degraded. The parlors looked over the road; the kitchen and the bedroom stood above an enclosed balcony, which led to an abandoned courtyard where the loquat endured. The project contemplates the conversion of the parlors into bedrooms making way for the living room.
At the heart of the apartment, the wooden corridor emerged between the stone-coated damp zones. The sliding panel, standing between it and the common areas, has two openings, which allows illumination of the corridor and brings the loquat into context.
Located in Bairro Azul in Lisbon, inside a classified art-deco architectural whole. Although this was a deep intervention that consisted in the total refurbishment of two apartments into one duplex the respect for the original compartmentalization was kept as well as the existing decorative elements (crown moldings, friezes, mosaics, door frames, moldings).
Palatina is a small palace built in the centre of Lisbon in the mid-20th century according to a plan designed by Architect Carlos Rebelo de Andrade in the Português Suave style.
Originally conceived to serve the purpose of a single family residence, the building was converted into four distinct apartments earlier this century. Apartment Palatina II takes up the penultimate floor and the attics of the mansion, formerly service areas and the living quarters for household staff – maids quarters, laundry, ironing and seamstress rooms.
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