Saraiva De Carvalho Apartment
SARAIVA DE CARVALHO APARTMENT
Aboim Inglez Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Aboim Inglez Arquitectos
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Maria Ana Castro Caldas Aboim Inglez, Ricardo Aboim Inglez
COLLABORATORS
Filipa Abreu, Adriano Correia, Carolina Jegundo, Sara Frazão Monteiro, Tiago Pereira, Tiago Silva Brandão, Carmo Siqueira de Almeida
STABILITY
Betar
SPECIALITIES
Sustentável
OVERSIGHT
Perfectus
YEAR
2022
LOCATION
Lisboa, Portugal
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
The apartment is on the last floor of a 1922 building in Campo de Ourique.
With generous dimensions and following the intrinsic characteristics of this type of building, it has a long corridor that distributes several rooms along it, ending in a generous balcony with a magnificent view over the Estrela district and several of Lisbon’s hills.
The acquisition of the existing attic over the apartment made it possible to enlarge this apartment and turn it into a duplex.
The kitchen is repositioned close to the inner void, benefitting from the existing windows and infrastructures.
This change allows the enlargement of the living room along the whole back façade and balcony, improving its light.
Double-height spaces punctuate the whole intervention, revealing the apparently fragile and complex roof structure. Skylights mark the space in search of the sky and views.
