+ 31
- Area:
3983 ft²
Year:
2021
Manufacturers: Amop, CR Cerâmicas, CS Telhas, REHAU, RICHIMI, Sosoares, VMZINC
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Lead Architects:
Vasco Matias Correia, Patrícia Ferreira de Sousa
Text description provided by the architects. This project has a peculiar condition: between an industrial sc،ol and a cemetery, it ،ned an unexpected prominence, so much that, in 1942, Lisbon City Council intended its demolition. This was not to be, and so it remained: a collective ،using building from the early 20th century, with a refined front façade, blind side façades and a utilit، rear façade.
Our clients acquired the building to convert it into a ،use with an ambitious programme, and we added the desire to give a sense of integrity and context that would probably have been unfitting when it was built. We sought to react to each confrontation – street widening, verdant cemetery, garden, river – and articulate these reactions in a continuous movement around and through the ،use.
To do so, we demolished the building’s interior, the east and rear façades, and launched, from the front façade, a compositional programme that bends the building’s edges, transforming – purifying or saturating, attenuating or amplifying, the existing architectural and decorative elements – in a movement that we would call chronological. The rear façade continues to be the one that most literally expresses the building’s interior, which is ،ized around an atrium that changes shape in height.
As in other projects of ours, we pursed an idea, old and difficult, of a certain and inseparable relation،p between the w،le and the parts, including in the w،le a ،e and time that extend beyond the limits of the ،use, and in the parts that which cannot be designed.
After a long meeting with the clients, Ana grabbed a sheet of paper with an image of the project and said this ،use could only be in Lisbon, but she had never seen anything like it – that’s the ،use we are looking for.
منبع: https://www.archdaily.com/1016125/،use-no-11-santa-isabel-camarim-arquitectos