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Pestana Lisboa Vintage Hotel

• Location: Lisbon, Portugal
• Solution: Buildings
• Type: Rehabilitation, Hospitality and tourism
• Promoter: Pestana Hotel Group
• Architecture: Edgeline Arquitectos
• Scope: Foundations and structures, demolitions
• Area: 4800m2
• Project: 2019
• Construction: 2021
• Photography: Rodrigo Cabral
• Contractor: Carvoeiro Construções, S.A.
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Conversion into an aparthotel of a building of avant-garde architecture, built in the 50s of the 20th century, originally designed for housing, but which has always housed offices, with the use of the attic floor and the construction of a new roof.

The intervention was intended to improve accessibility conditions, with the construction of three new reinforced concrete lift cores. The construction of the new accesses required the partial demolition of the floors in the insertion areas of these structures. In addition to the openings in the slabs, it was also necessary to demolish sections of beams in the alignments where they overlapped the lift shaft. The existing columns intersecting the walls of the cores were also partially demolished, after the walls surrounding them were built, thus ensuring the transfer of load from these columns to the new walls.

For the new roof, a solution was adopted in framed steel structures, which rest on the existing structure on floor 9, reinforced in some structural elements, due to the constitution of the new roof and the consequent increase in the load imposed on them.

The existing expansion joints were eliminated, allowing the whole structure to take advantage of the stress relief that the walls of the lift cores offer to the existing elements.