TAP Building
TAP BUILDING
Filipe Mónica Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Filipe Mónica Arquitectos, Helena Botelho
CONTRACTOR
Monterg Construções S.A.
ENGINEERING
Betar, Miguel Villar, Betar, Jorge Pinheiro, Energia Técnica, José Galvão Teles, Acustiprojecto, Luís Santos Lopes, António Portugal
COLABRATION
SIA Arquitectura, Ana Rita Martins, Ana Filipa Rosa
PHOTOS
Daniel Malhão
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
AREA
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Lisbon, Portugal
TYPE
Residential › Multi Unit Housing
This late 19th century building received a massive transformation in the 1950s conducted by the modernist Portuguese architect Raul Chorão Ramalho (1914-2002), who introduced a first major typological and structural change to its original configuration.
It is on top of this reality that the current intervention takes place, assuming itself as the third part of a same biography.
The overlapping of layers that the excellence of the two previous interventions provided was very clear, and it became natural to continue the same process.
Keeping the residencial use, five building units with five different typologies were carefully designed, and new common spaces were set-up.
Based on a premise of balance and accuracy-drawing, detail and meticulous construction, all the current operation converges into a fundamental principle:
the architectural achievement of a single object, in which the three times merge together in a natural way, and in harmony with the more relevant features offered by both a renewed program and an extraordinary site.
