Atelier Cecílio de Sousa / Aires Mateus

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  • Architects: Aires Mateus
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  994
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
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    Photographs:Rui Cardoso
  • Project Leader: Inês Cordovil
  • Collaborators: Ana Rita Rosa, Teresa M. Marques, Catharina Mark, Olga Sanina, Inês Potes, Luz Jiménez, David Carceller, Inês Gulbenkian, António Sardo
  • Coordination Of Interior Design: Maria Rebelo Pinto
  • Engineering: AFA Consult
  • Constructor: Manuel Mateus Frazão
  • Landscaping: F|C Arquitectura
  • City: Lisbon
  • Country: Portugal
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Text description provided by the architects. The project is a restoration. An operation that emphasizes the existent, recovering it and establishing new readings of reality. 

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Permanent elements are contemplated, as well as wall-paintings, tiles and the main spatial structures. From these elements, the change is implemented, adding value to them. 

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The new elements follow the history of the building with the autonomy of their time, integrated with a logic of the ‘whole’, established as the sum of all its construction eras.

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Address:Lisbon, Portugal

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Cite: "Atelier Cecílio de Sousa / Aires Mateus" [Atelier Cecílio de Sousa / Aires Mateus] 05 Jul 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/920353/atelier-cecilio-de-sousa-aires-mateus> ISSN 0719-8884

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