Our client wanted to enlarge his 2-bedroom apartment and so he acquired 2 more apartments in the same building – one above and one on the side – with the aim of joining them as one with more generous and flexible social and intimates spaces. This project concerns the latter.
Project Name: DG2
Project Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Site Area: 271 m2
Built Area: 127 m2
Project Completion: 2014
Project by: Camarim
Project Architects: Vasco Correia, Patrícia Sousa
Collaborators: Tiago Garrido
Project: Camarim
Photos: Nelson Garrido
MATERIALS
Interior Finishings: floor – white-lacquered solid wood flooring; bathroom – white marble from Moura, Portugal; fittings – oak wood-veneered MDF.
The side apartment had a living room and a kitchen open to a sunny balcony. The client wanted a second living room capable of transforming into a guest bedroom as well as a number of shelves, cabinets, and wardrobes to store and exhibit personal objects.
Instead of designing walls and fittings, we envisioned a fitting that outlines define and partitions all spaces: we spare the space that would be taken by the thickness of the wall and create the opportunity to explore logic and materiality closer to furniture design than to conventional construction.
