Victor Cordon

Lisbon / Portugal / 2023

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Located in downtown Lisbon in the DGPC's Urban Rehabilitation Area and Property Protection Zone, this multi-family housing building has been subject to various extensions and alterations over the years, depriving it of its original character and historical identity. 


The intervention aimed to rehabilitate the historic multi-family housing building, celebrating its original form and structures, which had suffered from successive alterations and expansions. These alterations resulted in damage to a large part of the original elements, especially in the interiors, and a very pronounced structural fragility in the rear body.


The programme consists of 22 apartments distributed over 6 floors and an attic. The new typologies, completely different from the existing ones, were designed to be adapted to the reality and needs of contemporary living. This resulted in the addition of an attic floor to the six existing floors and the use of what was once a commercial space for the creation of a residential unit on the ground floor. To improve accessibility, a lift was incorporated without changing the configuration of the atrium and stairwell.


In the main elevation, the three-sided hip roof and the configuration of the existing openings were maintained, with the recovery of the materials that constitute them. Throughout most of the intervention, the original finishings that characterise the building and the construction style of the period were recovered or replicated when restoration was not possible, such as the stone arches or the tiles covering the majority of the façade. The recovery of the historical identity of the building in a contemporary light was the main premise of this rehabilitation.


 


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A intervenção teve como objetivo a reabilitação de um edifício histórico de habitação multifamiliar, celebrando a sua forma e estruturas originais, descaracterizadas por sucessivas alterações e ampliações. Estas alterações resultaram na danificação de grande parte dos elementos originais, sobretudo nos interiores, e conduziram mesmo a alguma fragilidade estrutural mais acentuada no corpo tardoz.


O programa desenvolve-se ao longo de 22 apartamentos distribuídos por 6 pisos mais sótão. As novas tipologias, completamente distintas das existentes, foram desenhadas para se integrarem na realidade e necessidades de habitar contemporâneas. Desta intenção, resultou a necessidade de acrescentar um piso em sótão, aos seis existentes e o aproveitamento do que em tempos fora um espaço comercial para a criação de uma fração habitacional no piso térreo. De forma a melhorar a acessibilidade, foi incorporado um elevador sem alterar a configuração do átrio e núcleo de escadas.


No alçado principal manteve-se a cobertura de três águas e a configuração dos vãos existentes, com a recuperação dos materiais que os constituem. Na generalidade da intervenção, foram recuperados e replicados os acabamentos originais que caracterizam este edifício e o estilo construtivo da época, tais como os arcos em pedra ou os azulejos que revestem a maior superfície da fachada. A recuperação da identidade histórica do edifício à luz da contemporaneidade foi a grande premissa desta reabilitação.


 


Photography: Ivo Tavares Studio

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    Located in downtown Lisbon in the DGPC's Urban Rehabilitation Area and Property Protection Zone, this multi-family housing building has been subject to various extensions and alterations over the years, depriving it of its original character and historical identity.  The intervention aimed to rehabilitate the historic multi-family housing building, celebrating its original form and structures, which had suffered from successive alterations and expansions. These alterations resulted in...

    Project details
    • Year 2023
    • Work finished in 2023
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Apartments / Restoration of façades
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