Alfazema
In the existing large apartment with numerous compartments and with a dark corridor running through it, the adulterated area needed identity and meaning. The clients did not want the apartment as their residence but wanted to improve the existing space in order to make the most of their investment and this was the premise underlying this project.
The idea of the potential client would be a relatively young person given the apartment is on a second floor with no lift. As a result of this diagnosis, the proposal was to enhance the social area of the house – the living room and kitchen – by increasing it and giving it more light, and to highlight the relationship between them by bringing them closer together: the corridor is lit by the staircase from the skylights and given it is so small such light would be distributed throughout the private part of the bedrooms. The kitchen became a more sophisticated living room.
All the materials used are produced in Portugal.
Location
Algés, 2014–2015
Creation
Mafalda Neuparth Arquitectos
Development
Mafalda Neuparth
Client
Private
Translation to english
Michael Dornan
