Building in Costa do Castelo / Aurora Arquitectos

Constructing in Costa do Castelo / Aurora Arquitectos

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Textual content description supplied by the architects. This constructing with two flats is positioned in Costa do Castelo, a avenue that surrounds the hill and the place its buildings cover the view in the direction of town of Lisbon. To counteract with the horizontal extension of the plot, an inside void crosses and illuminates each ground. This void organizes the constructing circulation and permits one to observe the sky or the individual two ranges beneath. A vertical view that enhances the dominating horizontality of the outer panorama.

Within the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the context of fast metropolis enlargement and rising want for housing in Lisbon led to the looks of buildings dubbed ‘Gaioleiros’. Some of the recognizable options of such a buildings is the unusually large depth of the tons, marked by corridors working by way of the flats throughout their full size. The unique format of those buildings recommend a polarization of the social and purposeful areas at each ends, whereas the bedrooms are organized round a central lightwell.

For this particular ‘Gaioleiro’ positioned in Costa do Castelo, along with the options that inherently belong to this typology, the terrain’s steep slope permits a beneficiant view over Lisbon. The pure consequence would then be a horizontal distribution logic that seeks, above all, a relationship with the panorama.

As an alternative, the enlargement of the lightwell by way of its ‘duplication’ and incorporation of the stair core reinforces a relationship that’s meant to be zenithal, in quest of gentle and air flow. Due to this fact, it ceases to be the factor that divides the constructing in half to grow to be a centripetal power that organizes all its circulations, actions and celebrates its inside.

The mission, which includes a duplex on the decrease flooring, and a triplex on the higher flooring, develops round this lightwell as a central factor in a position to introduce steadiness within the preexistent horizontal relations. If, on the one hand, this horizontality spreads the floorplans in quest of a vanishing level on the outside, on the opposite, it’s the lightwell that interconnects all flooring, establishing itself as an inner vertical counterpoint. Thus, the polarized design that normally characterizes the plan of such buildings, now suggests the reinterpretation of its personal middle.