A house from the beginning of the twentieth century, situated in a privileged area of Lisbon, composed of three floors and a garage, with a splendorous garden at the back. There are various living rooms of many sizes, a beautiful library facing the garden, three bedrooms and an attic for storage.
The project involves a global renovation, a greater challenge to make punctual interventions throughout the whole house, introducing the necessary elements that will adequate it for todays’ comfortable way of living, without superimposing to the original, project. With this purpose, a criterious selection was made in the selection of materials for executing this project, priority was given to local materials, some even of artisanal manufacturing.
The attic was transformed for the childrens’ use. On this floor exclusively, option was made for a more modern intervention, contrasting with the renovated long mansards, the most outstanding design elements on this floor.
Outside, a new permanence area was created at the end of the garden, near the tank adapted nowadays for bathing. Diluted amongst the green landscape, the outhouse at the back reflets all this vegetation by means of its beautiful green facade tiles.
The landscape designers’ team have worked in a very critical and careful manner. Many existent plants were replanted and new areas were created for the vegetable garden and clothesline as being complementary functional spaces for the houses’ daily living.
Team:
Architect: Célula Arquitectura
Landscape Design: In loco_arquitectura paisagista + Pátio atelier
Construction: X-Log
Photographers: Nuno Almendra, Patrícia Chorão
Materials used:
Garden house facade: portuguese tiles, traditional 15x15cm tiles, Viúva Lamego
Flooring (Garden house, kitchen, corridor and winter garden): Hydraulic tiles, Projecto Mosaico
Windows: Façade windows, PVC, Deceuninck / Roof windows, PVC, Velux
Interior wall tiles: wall tiles, 15x15cm wall tiles, Primus Vitória
Bathroom coatings: Natural stone, Lioz Stone, Manuel Baleia Leitão
Garden house ceiling: Acoustic ceiling, Cork panels, Amorim
Interior Lighting: Pendant lighting in corridors, Glass lamps, Hospital dos candeeiros
Exterior Lighting: Wall Lighting, wall lamps, Latoaria Maciel
