Apartment on a Mint Floor

On the main floor of a modernist housing block, facing a reclaimed terrace, the apartment had been rebuilt with little respect for its plan. A convoluted main space now runs from façade to façade, holding living and dining, a nearly separate kitchen and a possible extra bedroom, while the main bedroom and bathrooms hide behind a circular wall.

The Portuguese design team kept walls to a minimum and set added elements against existing ones. Modest finishes highlight fixtures and structure, monumental wooden doors suggest degrees of privacy, a patterned kitchen sits in the sunlight, and a new open façade faces the terrace over a mint green floor.