Casa Na Mouraria

Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

CASA NA MOURARIA

José Andrade Rocha

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ricardo Oliveira Alves

AREA
64.0 m²

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Lisboa, Portugal

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

This house in the historic neighbourhood of Mouraria, Lisbon, suffered many transformations over the years that compartmentalised the space.

Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

The relation with the street was underexplored and the connections between social and private areas were ambiguous.

The intervention aimed to open the social area to the street, uniting the living room and the kitchen in a gesture that occupies.

Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

The whole extension of the façade, protecting the bedrooms and allowing serenity or agitation in distinct moments.

The preservation and restoration of traditional materials, such as carpentry and stuccowork, were a premise to the project, which aimed to smoothly combine the pre-existing elements and the new ones.

Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

In a house in only 55m2, the circulation spaces were reduced to its minimum dimension - a box that opens or closes to the social area, rationalizing the distribution to the remaining private spaces This new configuration, more flexible, allows intimacy or open space – as one wishes to live.


Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Casa Na Mouraria


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