Av. Rovisco Pais
Rehabilitation on Avenida Rovisco Pais — modernising the interior while preserving the structure and the façade design.
Information
Year:
2024
Category:
Urban renovation
Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
Area:
130 m²
Status:
Built
Description
Large-scale residential renovation in a mid-twentieth-century building. The layout, generous but heavily partitioned, hampered spatial flow — a legacy of the housing programmes of the period that the project set out to reverse.
The approach favoured respect for what was already there: surgical demolitions, retention of the structural frame and of the main corridor as the backbone of the plan. The relationship between rooms was rethought, opening visual axes that connect the living room to the outdoors. The layout evolved from a partitioned T3 into a T3+1 with a study, and all building services were replaced, improving energy performance.
Intervention
- Surgical demolitions, preserving the original structure and circulation
- New visual axes connecting the living room to the outdoors
- Layout changed from a partitioned T3 to a T3+1 with a study
- Complete replacement of building services, with room-by-room climate control
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