Apartment on João XXI / Aurora Arquitectos

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This is an apartment renovation project in a traditionalLisbonbuilding from the 1950s and 1960s, known as "rabo de bacalhau" (codfish tail). A great compartmentalization and a large distance between the kitchen and the social areas of the house characterize this typology.Text description provided by the architects.In mixology, the study of combining ingredients to make a cocktail, one goal is to achieve a new flavor resulting from the mixture of ingredients while allowing each one to be distinguished. It is a delicate balance between the individual and the collective.The intervention strategy had two phases: first, selective demolitions, leaving scars clad in stone; then, the addition of a continuous volume for the kitchen and storage, whose autonomous geometry crosses and traverses the existing spaces.The detailing is deliberately ambiguous: it uses the language of the original project and leaves doubts between preexistence and intervention, the ingredients, and the resulting mixture.