Alcântara 49

Location

Rua de Alcântara, nº49 - Lisbon

State

Project

January 2020

Work

Area

580m²

Category

Housing

Photography

The aim of the project is to contribute to the functional/social revitalization of this area of Lisbon, as well as to integrate the building into the surrounding urban fabric by adding a residential function to the building and redesigning the main elevation.

Living room and kitchen

For the main elevation, with an extremely poor design and a total lack of interest, a new compositional structure is proposed that establishes a logic of formal continuity with the urban front, to the detriment of a design that breaks with the pre-existing one.

In terms of functional organization, the first floor retains the two independent commercial spaces, to which a central access core has been added for the 5 residential units planned on the new upper floors. In the apartments, a contemporary concept was applied in which the living room and the kitchen create a common and ample space, in a permeable logic – “the kitchen opens onto the living room and participates in it”.