Architects:ARRIBA

Area :70 m²

Year :2016

Photographs :Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Architects In Charge : José Rocha, Filipe Ferreira

City : Graça

Country : Portugal

The operation should adapt the interior space of the apartment to a contemporary way of living, without major structural modifications. The strategy for this intervention was established on the idea of connecting two small-­scaled bedrooms so that social area could face the West, overseeing the river Tagus. The kitchen and the bedroom open up to a quiet courtyard, with a view over the urban gardens.

Apart from altering the social area, the layout of the house remained the same. The identity of the spaces, however, was transformed by the way in which they are now occupied and inter-­connect, as the interior bedroom is now a walk-­in closet, that either allows for an open circulation or becomes itself an extra bedroom.