Casa Leque
This 70 sqm flat integrates a building that generates a pronounced curve over its street, in downtown Algés.
The intervention’s strategy pursues each space’s orthogonality and rationality, questioning the pre-existing geometry bounded by acute angles, by rearranging its design and creating permanent furniture.
The living spaces are rectified and expanded through parallel lines and planes, widening the entrance and circulation space while preserving its triangular opening to the living room. The articulation between walls and rooms is made taking advantage of the furniture design, simultaneously shaping functional storage, work, meals and hygiene areas. The timber wardrobes define the intersection between the sleeping and the living spaces. Two working tables are created using the same approach, adjusting these spaces to a regular shape. Finally, the bathroom and the kitchen were improved through the design of their boundary. This gesture adds a new eating space while shaping a unique and detailed marble sink.
Combining the readjustment of the walls and the furniture conception, the existing irregularity was transformed in a design opportunity.
The original construction elements were preserved and honoured, such as the wood flooring and the rounded corners amidst walls, skirting boards and mouldings. The interior doors were recovered and their glasses were replaced with textures matching the originals.
The choice of the materials followed an honest approach, valuing their consistency throughout their inner and outer layers, such as their ageing beauty, their smoothness and the shading of their external textures.
Various distinct ambiences arose in a short space, with different functions, materials and shades, holding daily routine and its variables to accommodate life.
Location
Algés, 2020–2021
Creation
Mafalda Neuparth Arquitectos
Development
Mafalda Neuparth, Maria de Lurdes Fialho, Catarina Garrido Paulo
Client
Privado
Contractor
Vítor Nunes Marçal
Photography
Eduardo Nascimento . Do Mal O Menos ©
