Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal
26/11/2018.
[Lisboa] Portugal
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Manuel Cachão Tojal was commissioned to reform two homes. The challenge of this project was to join the two apartments of small areas and spaces and transform them into one apartment, without losing their identity and giving them a contemporary functionality and experience.
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira
Before renovation. Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal.
After renovation. Apartamento na Lapa by Manuel Cachão Tojal.
The renovation is located in Bairro da Lapa, Lisbon. The new redesign open the apartment to the outside, being entirely projected into the garden ensuring that the boundary between exterior and interior is attenuated.
A pristine interior, which has been optimized, unifying two apartments, renovated with few materials and remembering well-learned lessons of master, Álvaro Siza.
The apartment opens entirely into the garden through a large window, and the garden is split by a structural wall redesigned as if it were a sculpture.
Description of project by Manuel Cachão Tojal
Located in Bairro da Lapa, Lisbon, the apartments were at different stages of conservation. One of the apartments had a recent renovation; the other one was practically at its original condition.
The challenge of this project was to join the two apartments of small areas and spaces and transform them into one apartment, without losing their identity and giving them a contemporary functionality and experience. For this, the intervention had as a premise to focus the social area to the garden, the bedrooms to the opposite side, and the only room that remained interior was coated with a wood panel that brings the outside light to the interior without losing privacy.
The library has a double function as it acts as an entrance area of the house and as a connection to the living room, and the light in this space come into through the original doors’ spans. The large volume of wood, the fireplace, divides the living room from the kitchen, which extends to the outside and becomes a barbecue.
The apartment opens entirely into the garden through a large window, and the garden is split by a structural wall redesigned as if it were a sculpture.
The materials used were chosen to take into consideration the identity of the space, so Lioz Marble was used in the bathrooms, the wood pavement in the bedrooms and the concrete in the social area. Also, the plywood was applied to make the transition from wood to the concrete, giving more comfort to the living area.
The apartment is thus open to the outside, being entirely projected into the garden ensuring that the boundary between exterior and interior is attenuated.
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Architect
Manuel Cachão Tojal
Builder
Betalist
Construction Collaborators
Carpentry .- Carpinventosa
Flooring - Pine of Riga Pine, Microcimento and Lioz Stone
Outdoor Furniture and Kitchen.- Viroc Gray Gross
Sanitary ware.- Catalan, Newlight series
Faucets.- Ofa, Slim series
Electric Fixtures.- Efapel, series frame 45
Area
160m²
Dates
June 2018
Manuel CACHÃO TOJAL
Manuel Cachão Tojal, Lisbon, 1983, Graduated at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (F.A.U.T.L) in 2007. His first experience abroad was at Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro (U.F.R.J), where he spent one year through the European Socrates program. Later in 2007, he held a one-year trainee at the Faculty of Architecture of Tokyo (Tokyo Todaemae) through a Japanese fellowship. Still during his internship he collaborated with the studio SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa Architects and Asssociates). In 2008 he came back to Europe and started to work as an architect in Cadaval & Solà-Morales studio, in Barcelona. In 2011 he went to Sao Paulo, where he spent 2 years working as collaborator in the studio Reinach Mendonça Arquitectos Associados (RMAA).
In parallel, along the last years, he developed some projects of Architecture, such as Casa na Travessa do Patrocinio, built in 2012. Recently he came back to Portugal, where he currently lives and develops his individual activities and some collaboration projects.
