Site Specific – Arquitectura, Lda.

Santo António Museum

Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Santo António Museum

Site Specific Arquitectura + P-06 Atelier

ARCHITECTS
P-06 Atelier, Site Specific Arquitectura; Nuno Gusmão, Pedro Anjos

MANUFACTURERS
Letratec

TEAM
A.al Arquitectos, Joana Prosépio

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Patrícia Marques, J.paulo Costa

CLIENT
Lisbon City Hall

CONSTRUCTION
Jfs / Ferlindo

COMPETITION
1st Place - 2012

AREA
295 M²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Lisboa, Portugal

CATEGORY
Museum, Restoration, Renovation

Text description provided by architect.

The project is located in Lisbon's historical centre, in the border area between Baixa Pombalina and Alfama neighbourhood.

Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The new museum replaces the existing one (contiguous to the church), and is expanded to a new area in an existing residential building constructed after the 1755 earthquake, that includes construction elements supposedly prior to that.

The space's original scale, geometry and identity were recovered by demolishing and clearing existing mischaracterized constructions.

New exhibition panels were designed in consonance with the existing geometry, emphasising it and reinforcing the ancient stonework.

Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

These architectural and museographic new elements solve the museum's technical questions and stand out through its' precise scale and dimension.

Outside, a perforated metal plate covers the old museum's entire facade in order to clarify the existing building's geometries, hide technical elements and communicate the museum's identity.

It's semi-transparency enhances the visual relation between the museum's interior and the square (where Santo António's statue stands), and allows the existing stone porch to be seen from outside.

Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Santo António Museum
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


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