Filipe Fonseca Costa renovates an apartment in Lapa, Portugal
05/08/2019.
[Lapa - Lisbon] Portugal
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Filipe Fonseca Costa renovates an apartment in Lapa, using contemporary language interventions, following the logic of verticality, fluidity and light: a window that illuminates several spaces, vertical doors, a wall cut from the ceiling thus illuminated.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa. Photograph by do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento.
Plan. Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa.
Section. Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa.
Section. Apartment in Lapa by Filipe Fonseca Costa.
Filipe Fonseca Costa's project ends its journey in the courtyard, drawing a relationship between the social area, terrace and garden. The apartment therefore extends to the outside, where an open but private space narrows towards the river.
Description of project by Filipe Fonseca Costa
A noble building from the early 20th century. A successively adulterated and demolished apartment that has lost its original layout. An inhospitable and barren outer space, facing away from the apartment. The intervention was based on the following principles.
Clarify and balance the several coexisting epochs in the same space. Return part of the plant to the past, rebuilding both structurally and stylistically, and preserving the original elements such as spans, portals and ceilings. Taming a postmodernist intervention, adapting it to new uses, but also showing it, in memory of the past, suspended in the ceiling of the social area. Balancing the design of these different epochs with contemporary language interventions, following the logic of verticality, fluidity and light: a window that illuminates several spaces, vertical doors, a wall trimmed from the ceiling thus illuminated.
Finally, return the apartment to its outer space, by drawing a proportional sequence between social area, terrace and garden.
And in this, the House extends to the outside, where an open but private space tapers to the river.
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Architects
Filipe Fonseca Costa.
Team
Pilar Luz, Paulo Lopes, Filipe Ambrósio.
Collaborators
Construction.- Robraz, Lda. Engineering.- Pedro Machado.
Manufacturers
Carpenter.- Luis Santos. Marble Stone Moleans.- Longuinho&Neves. Pine Floor.- Eurotaco.
Area
240 m².
Date
2018.
Filipe Fonseca da Costa
Filipe Fonseca da Costa was born in France in 1977. Graduated in Architecture from the Department of Architecture (DARQ) of the University of Coimbra in 2005.
He collaborated with the architects Victor Mestre & Sofia Aleixo, in Lisbon, with MX-Si Architectural Studio, in Barcelona, and with Orange studio in Coimbra. He began his activity as an independent architect in 2014, where he has been developing projects in different areas.
He collaborated with the architects Victor Mestre & Sofia Aleixo, in Lisbon, with MX-Si Architectural Studio, in Barcelona, and with Orange studio in Coimbra. He began his activity as an independent architect in 2014, where he has been developing projects in different areas.
