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TIMS bakery and Aea Space
TIMS bakery and Aea Space
Lisbon, Portugal
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TIMS bakery and Aea Space
Lisbon, Portugal
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Type
STATUS
Under Construction
YEAR
2026
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
TIMS bakery and Aea Space for culture and art are inserted into the ground floor of the Museu das Comunicações in Lisbon’s Santos district. The project reinterprets the museum’s focus on communication through architecture, combining socialising around food and cultural programming within a single, flexible interior.
The existing space was stripped back to its masonry shell, revealing original stone flooring and traces of earlier layouts. The interior unfolds as a compact square encircled by arches: a distinct rhythm across the room and defining a sequence of interconnected zones without closing them off.
An eight-metre counter integrates bakery production, coffee service and display, with preparation fully visible from the seating area. Opposite, a raised platform functions as a shallow amphitheatre. Mobile plinths and stackable furniture allow the space to shift between café, exhibition and talk format. A translucent textile screen enables large-scale projections while maintaining visual permeability across the room.
Material interventions are restrained: existing brickwork is preserved, new surfaces are rendered in microcement, and mirrors amplify depth within the compact footprint. Lighting differentiates production and communal areas while allowing the kitchen to become a singular illuminated element at night.
Aea Space does not treat culture as a separate layer applied to daily life, but as something that can unfold within it. Bread, coffee and exhibition share the same spatial field. In this sense, TIMS & Aea Space recall a longer cultural tradition — from Lisbon to Paris and beyond — in which cafés have served as informal laboratories of thought, places where ideas are tested collectively before taking form. Developed in collaboration with invited curators, the programme invites multidisciplinary artists to inhabit the space, turning it into a platform for conversation, collaboration and public presentation
The existing space was stripped back to its masonry shell, revealing original stone flooring and traces of earlier layouts. The interior unfolds as a compact square encircled by arches: a distinct rhythm across the room and defining a sequence of interconnected zones without closing them off.
An eight-metre counter integrates bakery production, coffee service and display, with preparation fully visible from the seating area. Opposite, a raised platform functions as a shallow amphitheatre. Mobile plinths and stackable furniture allow the space to shift between café, exhibition and talk format. A translucent textile screen enables large-scale projections while maintaining visual permeability across the room.
Material interventions are restrained: existing brickwork is preserved, new surfaces are rendered in microcement, and mirrors amplify depth within the compact footprint. Lighting differentiates production and communal areas while allowing the kitchen to become a singular illuminated element at night.
Aea Space does not treat culture as a separate layer applied to daily life, but as something that can unfold within it. Bread, coffee and exhibition share the same spatial field. In this sense, TIMS & Aea Space recall a longer cultural tradition — from Lisbon to Paris and beyond — in which cafés have served as informal laboratories of thought, places where ideas are tested collectively before taking form. Developed in collaboration with invited curators, the programme invites multidisciplinary artists to inhabit the space, turning it into a platform for conversation, collaboration and public presentation
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