João XXI Apartment

Lisboa, Portugal

2019 – 2023

In mixology, the study of combining ingredients to make a cocktail, one of the objectives is to achieve a new flavor resulting from the mixture of ingredients, while also allowing each of them to be distinguished. It’s a delicate balance between the individual and the collective.
This is a renovation project for an apartment in a traditional Lisbon building from the 1950s and 1960s, known as “cod’s tail”. This typology is characterized by extensive compartmentalization and a great distance between the kitchen and the social areas of the house.
The intervention strategy had two phases: first, selective demolitions, leaving stone-clad scars; then, the addition of a continuous volume for kitchen and storage, whose autonomous geometry crosses and traverses the existing spaces.
The detailing is intentionally ambiguous: it uses the language of the original project and leaves doubts between the preexisting elements and the intervention, the ingredients, and the resulting mixture.

Project João XXI Apartment

Location Lisbon, Portugal

Client Private

Program Apartment refurbishment

Area 180 m2

Date 2019 – 2023

Architecture Aurora Arquitectos

Architecture Team Sérgio Antunes, Sofia Reis Couto, Tânia Sousa, Carolina Rocha, Anna Cavenago, Afonso Nunes.