Apartment on João XXI
Apartment on João XXI
Aurora Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Aurora Arquitectos
PROGRAM
Apartment Renovation
DESIGN TEAM
Sérgio Antunes, Sofia Reis Couto, Tânia Sousa, Carolina Rocha, Anna Cavenago, Afonso Antunes, Rafael Gonçalves, Joana Orêncio
DATES
2019–2023
YEAR
2022
LOCATION
Lisbon, Portugal
CATEGORY
Apartments, Renovation, Apartment Interiors
Text description provided by architect.
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.
