Completed 2023
Klint Apartment
A nineteenth-century apartment repaired room by room, with new oak joinery and the old plaster ceilings restored.
Location
Lisbon, PT
Sector
Year
2023
Client
Private
Area
180 m²
Budget
€0.8m
Programme
Apartment renovation
Photography
J. Lindqvist
(A-106) Overview
Sheet 01 / 06
01.1 — Brief
Competition
Direct commission, 2022
Design
2022
On site
2022 — 2023
Opened
October 2023
Repair first, then add only what is missing.
Every ceiling, floor and shutter was surveyed. We kept 80% of it, repaired what we could and replaced only what had failed.
New oak joinery holds the kitchen, books and storage, standing free of the old walls so it can come out again one day.
(A-106) Gallery
Sheet 02 / 06
Fig. 01 — The salon after repair
Fig. 02 — New oak joinery
Fig. 03 — Restored lime plaster
(A-106) Drawings
Sheet 03 / 06
A-102 — Ground floor plan · 1:200
A-301 — Section A–A · 1:100
Step 01 — Grid and axes
Step 02 — Walls and structure
Step 03 — Openings and finishes
Step 04 — Rooms and labels
Step 05 — Dimensions and title block
(A-106) In numbers
Sheet 04 / 06
m² repaired
of original fabric kept
embodied carbon vs. new fit-out
rooms, 11 ceilings restored
(A-106) Materials
Sheet 04 / 06
Four materials, chosen to weather.
Hover a material to bring its specimen forward. Every surface was sampled on site for a full winter before it was specified.
(A-106) Client note
Sheet 05 / 06
“They talked us out of a new kitchen and into fixing the old windows. They were right.”
Inês Costa
Client
(A-106) Credits
Sheet 06 / 06
Architect
Hallform Architects
Partner in charge
Ida Kjær
Structural engineer
Søe & Kirk Engineers
Services
Nord MEP
Landscape
Field Office
Lighting
Lumen Atelier
Contractor
Brink Byg
Photography
J. Lindqvist
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