Príncipe Real

Year: 2016
Location: Lisbon
Residential Architecture

Complete rehabilitation of an 18th century house with total demolition of its interior.
The building, initially occupied by separated apartments (one for each floor) has now become a single-family house. With an approximate area of 100m2 per floor and 100m2 of garden, this construction had 300m2 of built area, distributed along its 3 floors.

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Today, with the use of the attic area and the creation of a basement where besides a garage, there also takes place a wine cellar, a laundry and a technical area, the house has now a total construction area of 450m2 distributed over a total of 4 floors and basement.
The placement of an elevator to overcome the main floors along with a redesigned staircase where the original one used to be, ensures now the internal circulation throughout the house. Being this a building classified as "Heritage Interest" and its location in the city historical centre, the intervention was very conditioned since the beginning.

For this reason and because I believe that to rehabilitate heritage is to intervene in such a way that the intervention is almost unnoticeable in the end, it was decided to maintain the same type of architectural language that previously defined this construction maintaining the same type of doors, skirting boards, windows, etc., along with one or two elements that clearly assumed a contemporary language, but that in no way was supposed to overlap with the original architecture of the house.