João XXI 公寓丨葡萄牙里斯本丨Aurora Arquitectos

Architects:Aurora Arquitectos

Area:180m²

Year:2022

Photographs:Do Mal o Menos

Design Team:Sérgio Antunes, Sofia Reis Couto, Tânia Sousa, Carolina Rocha, Anna Cavenago, Afonso Antunes, Rafael Gonçalves, Joana Orêncio

Program:Apartment Renovation

Client:Private

Dates:2019–2023

City:Lisbon

Country:Portugal

Text description provided by the architects. In mixology, the study of combining ingredients to make a cocktail, one goal is to achieve a new flavor resulting from the mixture of ingredients while allowing each one to be distinguished. It is a delicate balance between the individual and the collective.

This is an apartment renovation project in a traditional Lisbon building from the 1950s and 1960s, known as "rabo de bacalhau" (codfish tail). A great compartmentalization and a large distance between the kitchen and the social areas of the house characterize this typology.

The intervention strategy had two phases: first, selective demolitions, leaving scars clad in stone; then, the addition of a continuous volume for the kitchen and storage, whose autonomous geometry crosses and traverses the existing spaces.

The detailing is deliberately ambiguous: it uses the language of the original project and leaves doubts between preexistence and intervention, the ingredients, and the resulting mixture.

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Address:Lisboa, Portugal