100 Sapateiros

The building is located at Sapateiros Street, downtown Lisbon. It has two flats per floor; it doesn’t have a lift and, overall, is poorly kept. During these past decades, some of the Baixa Pombalina’s units were used as office spaces. Recently, these companies have moved away from the city centre but kept using these spaces as archive rooms. The weight of these paper archives overloading and deforming the building´s original timber structure. Furthermore, some of the ground floor’s shops structural components were also demolished. The flat, is on the fourth floor, because of this the floor, ceilings and interior doors were severely deformed. To solve it was essential to reinforce flat’s structure before laying new timber floors and to correct the floor level.
The bedrooms and bathroom were display to face the block courtyard. The castle view and a long balcony are the purpose to put all the social rooms along the street facade. The kitchen was moved also to this area, using a suspended ceiling to run the infrastructures.