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Location Plan Baixa Pombalina – Classified Area and Protected Zone

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View Rua dos Douradores and Rua de Santa Justa

First Floor A Living Room

First Floor A Kitchen

First Floor A Living Room

Fourth Floor Staircase

Second Floor C Living Room

Second Floor C Living Room

Second Floor C Living Room

Second Floor A Living Room

Third Floor C Living Room

Third Floor A Living Room

Details original paintings

Fourth Floor B Living Room

Fourth Floor B Bedroom

Fifth Floor B Atrium Entrance

Fifth Floor A Living Room

Fifth Floor A Living Room

Fifth Floor B Living Room

Fifth Floor A Living Room

Fifth Floor A Kitchen

Fifth Floor A Kitchen

Fifth Floor A Wardrobe

Fifth Floor B Bathroom

Fifth Floor B Bathroom

Fifth Floor A Bedroom

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Apartment Fractions Plan Proposed and Existing

Existing

Existing

Existing

Existing

Douradores

The building in question was constructed in the first quarter of the 19th century, at the heart of Lisbon’s Baixa Pombalina district.

By 2016, the building was almost completely vacant and severely dilapidated. The structure of the building had been greatly weakened by the demolition of resistant walls at ground level, which had led to the floors settling.

To make the most of the corner location of the building, it was proposed changing the configuration from two apartments to three per floor, maintaining the original Pombaline layout, with an intricately arrange series of spaces. To address modern demands for comfort and accessibility, a lift was installed at the centre of the building, leaving the original stairwell intact.

The first phase of construction began in 2017, with the aim of correcting the building’s structural shortcomings, repairing the roof and renovating the ground floor. Structural surveys were carried out between the two phases, along with surveys on the walls and ceilings. Examination of the wall paintings revealed the existence of successive layers of frescoes and tempera paintings in all the apartments.

At that point, it was thought vital to uncover the frescoes, which languished unseen beneath newer layers of painting for decades. Preserving them was deemed one of the most important concerns of the whole project. The strategy was adjusted to prevent any scraping against the walls, new solutions for installing the building infrastructure were executed.

Subsequently, however, the decision was made not to proceed with the restoration of the frescoes, nor to prioritise specific features. Instead, the consensus was that these traces of the past should be left as they are, overlapping, incomplete, with all their flaws. We endeavoured to reveal the sheer complexity of the building by revealing the multitude of transformations that it has undergone over time.

Location Rua dos Douradores, Lisboa, Portugal
Project 2020
Client Private
Architetcture José Adrião – Principal
Ricardo Aboim Inglez – Project Manager
Ana Grácio, Gonçalo Ponces, João Albuquerque Matos, Margarida Pereira, Tomás Forjaz
Structure Engineer ARA – Alves Rodrigues Associados
Services Engineer Pensamento Sustentável

Main Contractor First Phase VPS
Site Supervision First Phase Teixeira Trigo

Main Contractor Second Phase X-Log

Site Supervision Second Phase HP Engenharia
Photography Hugo Santos Silva

Photography on site Nuno Almendra

Photography concluded Fernando Guerra

Video Minnie Freudenthal e Manuel Rosário

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