By AD Editorial Team

Architects: Camarim Arquitectos
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Project Architects: Vasco Correia, Patrícia Sousa
Area: 146.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Nelson Garrido

Collaborators: Tiago Garrido
Exterior Finishings: translucent glass panels; lacquered-steel shutters
Interior Finishings: floor – solid pine wood; pivoting doors – pine plywood; countertops and guard – limestone

From the architect. This multi-family housing building is located in Príncipe Real in Lisbon and was built in 1757, 2 years after the 9.0 Richter-scale earthquake.

Our client wanted to renovate the upper floor flat – simplify its layout and adjust it to the life of a modern family – while respecting the building’s constructive logic and the spirit and scale of the historic district.

The roof’s apex defines the border between the living room – with a horizontal window overlooking the garden – and the bedrooms – with dormer windows. Bathrooms, kitchen and larder are grouped in an irregular-shape volume that differentiates spaces and uses in an easy, informal fashion, without doors or corridors.

The materials – limestone, solid wood and plaster – are taken from the original apartment but their combination and design are boldly modern. The horizontal window is as wide as the apartment and is composed of 3 filters – glass, translucent glass and sliding shutters – that assure shading and privacy and echo the intermittence and texture of the windows in the lower floors.

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