Apartment extension in Benfica

Lisbon, Portugal

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Apartment extension in Benfica

Lisbon, Portugal

Firm

Hugo Proença Arquitecto

Type

Residential › Apartment

YEAR

2012

SIZE

5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

BUDGET

$10K - 50K

The intention was to adapt an extension type T1 of a
main apartment into a work studio, located in the center of Benfica, Lisbon. Situated
on the 8th floor of a 70's style building with some teaching of modernism,
but in an advanced state of adulteration, the two properties take
advantage of a few qualities still present, a clear view overlooking the
surrounding buildings.
The project seeks, through a language of little but
rigorous means, to integrate the two houses without either losing their identities
- uniting without mischaracterizing, continuing individualizing, attaching with autonomy.
Small in size, approximately 50m2, the apartment comes
down to two rooms, a bathroom and a dismantled kitchen. Transitions are
defined through a short corridor with four passage openings, one for each
space. There was no room for significant demolition but there were minor
refinements to the woodwork, the divisions maintain the same joints, but
these are now more intense and dramatic.
The light, a fundamental and qualitative aspect, was,
along with the walls, a integral part of this operation. With full and far
reaching exposure to the south, the space gained is shaped through light, which
in large was difficult to control, but which still fills the whole depth
of the house. Even the corridor wins this condition, through two translucent
openings and two mirrors of the same size.
A wall cabinet overcomes the entire length of the
house on the blind side of construction, giving support to the different spaces
that they occupy; room-corridor-room.
The connection to the main house, with no great
invention, is made where the two apartments touch, starting on the street
at the entrance of the main apartment, following the existing movement. In
the new house, it is defined by a chamber, limited by a cabinet / shelving below
the full height that which passes the light.

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Apartment extension in Benfica

Lisbon, Portugal

Apartment extension in Benfica

Lisbon, Portugal

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