JOSÉ NEVES, arquitecto ▪ Pascal Lobry Apartment

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The house is the first floor of a "gaioleiro" building situated on the edge St. George Castle's east wall. Original Plans.

A set of new elements made of painted or exposed wood, which do not seem to touch the floor, walls and ceilings reorganize the house and the connection between its spaces, the bathroom and the kitchen. Plan.

A door, discovered in the original building project, was reopened, transforming the visual relation between the various rooms, and above all allowing one to walk through the house in multiple ways. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

A folding panel links the living rooms. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

The daybed is an afzelia wood panel that rises from the wall. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

Detail. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

View from the kitchen to the dining room, trough the window-counter. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

Detail of the old and new carpentry. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

A pivoting door organizes the hall in two parts. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

All the walls were coated between the baseboards and the original crown moldings. Axonometric

Detail of the walls and the ceiling in the bathroom (the only inner compartment), which was transformed into a skylight, as if it were a small covered patio. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

Detail of the ceiling and the walls in a room, coated with slightly textured wallpaper, hand painted. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

The interiors of the cabinets and of some small recesses are coated in oak wood veneer. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

The alcove library in painted and exposed nut wood. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

Photograph by Duarte Belo (Exposição "Cesariny – Em casas como aquela", Museu da Electricidade)

The nut wood panel unfolds to become a small desk. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

Detail. (photo: Tomoya Fujimoto)

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