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madres apartments

Madragoa, Lisboa \  Portugal

2014 - 2020

reabilitação de edifício

#habitação  #reabilitação

cliente privado

fotografia | João Guimarães

The building is located on Rua das Madres, one of the main arteries of the typical Madragoa neighbourhood, with its narrow streets, tight pre-Pombaline urban fabric and small-scale residential buildings.

The building to be intervened is a small structure made up of four independent residential floors, including a small fraction in the attic, built in stone masonry on the façades and wood and board structure on the inside.  The building on Rua das Madres was abandoned and quite destroyed, but preserved many of the original constructive elements.

 

Our approach favoured the rehabilitation of most of these elements as the driving force behind the reinvention of each of the flats to provide them with habitable conditions.

 

The main façade was simple and characteristic of traditional Lisbon architecture, with three openings on the ground floor and two windows per floor (floors 1 and 2), with the highlight being the beautiful metal railings that were restored. The wooden doors on the ground floor were kept and the windows on the floors were completely renovated with new ‘oxblood’ coloured frames in keeping with the neighbouring Convento das Bernardas. On Level 0, the façade doors stand out against the interior doors that surround the structural elements. On Floor 1, the stone flirtation chair next to the exterior window was restored and the ‘St Andrew's cross’ was once again emphasised. Floors 2 and the attic form a duplex flat overlooking the Tagus.  The existing roof, the result of successive alterations, had an unbalanced design, and its configuration was completely remodelled to harmonise with the rest of the building and improve the interior space of the attic.

The interior refurbishment favoured the use of traditional finishes, such as pine wood flooring, tiles and hydraulic flooring, restoring the building to its original beauty.

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