Lisbon Wood Housing

Rebuild to revive. Renew to continue.

To give a new life to an existing building, within it´s storyand excellent location.

The pre-existence was a state service, the tourism general offices.

The project intended to provide the building with featuresof a current architecture.

New materials, new spaces, newconnections, thus creating new experiences for the newestablished use, to inhabit.

Inhabiting the city center. Take advantage of the centrality, with the required privacy and retreat. Living in larger andconnected spaces, full of light.

We opened the building to the outer space. We extend it onbalconies that increase the space of habitation, which thusalso happens outdoors, in contact with the open air, a relicin the center of the city. Interior and exterior are in constant dialogue.

We worked the materiality according to its characteristicsof comfort, robustness and longevity. the minimalistinterior contrasts while connects with the powerfulexterior in thermo modified wood.

A disused building gained a new life, and give new lives through its 15 apartments and 2 shops, connected bycommon leisure spaces, such as gardens, a gym and a SPA.

Wood is the hallmark of the building. Traditional andnoble material, allied to the current technology, in thecladding of facades that will always be dynamic, differentfor each moment of the day and for each apartment.

The facade is dynamic, it has constant movement, whichmakes it a mutable, almost living building, that transcendsits inner life to the exterior.

The wood is applied in automated shutters, that whileprivatizing the interior spaces, increase the building senergy efficiency. They limit or allow the interior solar incidence, depending if it is summer or winter, what in a mediterranean city like Lisbon has a great preponderancein thermal confort.