Casa Capitão is a cultural venue located in Beato, Lisbon, focusing on music, gastronomy, art, and critical thinking. The pre-existing building, with its modest late-19th-century architecture, is now characterized by a new exposed concrete crown, translating its special program into architectural exception.
From the street there is no visible entrance to the building’s interior. One must walk along a side passage to discover a hidden terrace at the back, which acts as a new pivotal space reconnecting the city with the interior of the complex in which it is located.
The public spaces — a concert hall simply dubbed the ‘ground floor’, a bar-restaurant called the ‘first floor’, the courtyard onto which it opens, a more intimate room in the ‘attic’, or even the restrooms — all possess a distinct chromatic identity, as in a Baroque building. There is no main entrance; rather, a path of passages, stairs and courtyards is constructed, with circulation always taking place in the open air.
