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New Residential Building Development in Portugal – design by Plano Humano Arquitectos
20 July 2019
Lisbon Wood Edifício de Habitação
Architects: Plano Humano Arquitectos
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Rebuild to revive. Renew to continue. To give a new life to an existing building, within it´s story and excellent location. The pre-existence was a state service, the tourism general offices.

The project intended to provide the building with features of a current architecture. New materials, new spaces, new connections, thus creating new experiences for the new established use, to inhabit.

Inhabiting the city center. Take advantage of the centrality, with the required privacy and retreat. Living in larger and connected spaces, full of light.
We opened the building to the outer space. We extend it on balconies that increase the space of habitation, which thus also happens outdoors, in contact with the open air, a relic in the center of the city. Interior and exterior are in constant dialogue.

We worked the materiality according to its characteristics of comfort, robustness and longevity. the minimalist interior contrasts while connects with the powerful exterior in thermo modified wood.

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