The Portuguese firm rar.studio, led by Rita Aguiar Rodrigues, has rehabilitated and refurbished a 20th century home in the heart of Lisbon.

The project is located in the traditional Mouraria neighbourhood, a typical area of the city, with narrow cobbled streets surrounded by groups of stacked houses with three or more levels.

The clients, a German couple, needed a second home to link their stays between Berlin and Lisbon.
The apartment designed by rar.studio unfolds around a nucleus of stairs from which the entire functional program is distributed.

The house has privileged implantation, which allows it to open to the outside in three of its four limits, with large vertical windows recovered from the old house, which at times become narrow balconies and at others, widen the useful areas of the dining room and the kitchen.

The white of the plaster that covers all the walls contrasts with the enamelled black and reddish ceramic floors. In addition, the furniture used, with designs from the beginning of the last century, enhances the relationship between past and present, which coexist harmoniously inside the house.
 

Description of project by rar.studio

Apartment ME is a pied-à-terre in Lisbon.

A place for a couple of Berliners and for their – perhaps not so short – stays in Lisbon.

Having the Kreuzberg - Mouraria axis as backdrop, the refurbishment operation celebrates Lisbon’s early 20th century residential architecture, solving prosaic details with simple solutions, in an eminently colloquial intervention.

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Project team
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Rita Aguiar Rodrigues. Inês Chambel Borges. Marta Morais Miranda. Samuele D'Eramo.
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Client
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Private.
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Builder
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Prisma Contínuo - Unipessoal, Lda.
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Area
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Gross internal area.- 70 sqm.
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2019 - 2020.
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Lisbon, Portugal.
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rar.studio is a Lisbon-based architectural practice, designing and producing places and objects, research and critical thinking.

Transversal to the nature of the exercise, the scale of intervention or the respective client typology, the studio’s work inherently involves the design of solutions deploying sensitive, critical and responsive perspectives on the context and the contingencies prevailing.

The design process is determined by the principles of client collaboration, mediation with the supervisory entities and assembling and coordinating teams incorporating the necessary range of technical and specialist skills,knowledge and experience.

Through joint reflection, the studio ensures broad reaching, efficient and precise project development.

The studio was founded in 2015 by the architect Rita Aguiar Rodrigues.

Rita Aguiar Rodrigues
MA in Architecture from Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa in 2009. Collaborated with Pedro Reis Arquitecto (2009-10 Lisbon, PT), MMBB Arquitetos (2010-11 São Paulo, BR) and ateliermob (2011-15 Lisbon, PT).

Assistant Professor at the International MA Program ASG - Architektur.Studium.Generale. from Brandenburg University of Technology and Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (2012 Lisboa, PT), and tutor at the Architecture Intervention Laboratories “Noutra Costa” (2012) and “In Situ” (2013/2016) from the Center for the Study of Architecture, City and Territory of Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Founded rar.studio in Lisbon in 2015.

Inês Chambel Borges
MA in Architecture from Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa in 2018.

Ana Ponce Suero
MA in Architecture from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla in 2019.
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