Apartamento Artur Lamas / Verum Atelier

Text description supplied by the architects. In a historic neighborhood of Lisbon, Artur Lamas is a 65 sq. meters residence in Belém rehabilitation challenge. The challenge was designed with the intention of constructing the present gloomy and tight house right into a pleasurable residence, that will enable its profitability via short-term lease. The architectural options developed on this challenge are the results of the examine of the constructing and its options, in addition to the likelihood to make the most of the east patio. Another main issue was the requirement to make a extra salubrious house providing all of the housing qualities along with re-building all present infrastructures given the dilapidated state of the residence. Firstly, there was a necessity to strengthen and requalify the present roof, enabling the rise of the peak and consequently the tearing of openings for pure gentle and air circulation.

With solely pure gentle coming from the east and being a really slender house, it was designed to be as open as potential by simply having partition partitions in areas that have to be non-public. Thereby, pure gentle sweeps virtually fully the house rising the spatial high quality and the residence expertise. The spans had been all redesigned on a really beneficiant scale letting the daylight in, but in addition creating a number of shadows ensuing from the incidence of sunshine on the outside landscaping. 

The microcement flooring creates homogeneity whereas the winding line that divides the social and the non-public space is a information that smooths the way in which to discover the house. In its flip, the predominance of white consolidates this homogeneity which is simply damaged by the introduction of picket carpentry and by the Guatemala-green pure stone that grants simplicity and nobleness to the house. The challenge was designed to discover the complete residence house in numerous methods, proper from the mattress place over a big trapdoor for storage and with built-in bedside tables. The nook close by the kitchen affords not solely a spot to relaxation but in addition an interplay with the meals preparation house.

The kitchen countertop extends to a desk which can be utilized for meals or as a work-table. Next to the spans that divides the residence and the patio there’s a beneficiant parapet that invitations leisure and studying moments. The patio receives the morning gentle that invades the good adjoining gaps. It has the identical tone and flooring as the inside house with a purpose to prolong it and to accentuate the inside and exterior spatial relationship. 

Although the challenge is totally transformative, it sought to present contemporaneity to the residence in a easy method and through the use of impartial but refined supplies, mixed with the brand new quantity that extends to the patio, exploring and creating new methods of residing the house. So, the current is constructed with out a rupture with the previous.