House in Arco do Cego, Lisbon

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This apartment was refurbished according to two clearly different natures: the one that caracterizes the main floor and the one of the attic. In the first level all the elements were re-used, accepting its character; in the attic a more free design was used. The entire house was rebuilt according to the original constructive systems. In the bathroom and kitchen floors as well as in the shower walls a local stone is used, Severall closets and bookshelves reorganize the existent spaces. In the attic, the pinewood constructs the ceiling forming the roof and the floor is painted with a white epoxy surface, inverting the logic founded in the lower floor. In the attic a tree-house was created after a children´s dream.

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architecture

Pedro Matos Gameiro (coordination), Carlos Crespo and Gonçalo Pinheiro

design team

José Maria Cumbre, Mariana Mateus, Filipa Almeida

structures

João Paulo Cardoso (PRPC engenheiros)

hidraulics

Pedro Romano (PRPC engenheiros)

client

private commission

project year

2005 - 2008

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