Project: House in Rego neighborhood in Lisbon*
Type of project: Planning application for house extension
Date: 2006 – 2008
Phase: Completed (2010)
Description: The project to extend a small single storey house in the Rego neighbourhood began from the need to adapt the house, built in 1933, to the size of the family and to the modern family life.
The villa is part of a set of 8 houses that over time have undergone some alterations. The proposal, comprised of a loft extension and a new basement, aimed to preserve the original scale of the urban environment.
The main façade height and the main roof slope were retained, raising only the ridge by 0.50m and increasing the volume on the rear elevation, visually inaccessible from the public space.
In order to be able to incorporate the whole brief in such a contained volume – a three bedroom house with two bathrooms – two dormer windows were added to the main roof slope.
The wider dormer provided space for an additional bedroom, while the smaller dormer offers natural light to the stair, which doubles up as the library of the house.
*project designed in collaboration with Architect Pedro Ressano Garcia