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Miguel Lupi 24

• Location: Lisbon, Portugal
• Solution: Buildings
• Type: Housing, Rehabilitation
• Promoter: M. LUPI - Sociedade Imobiliária
• Architecture: PMC Arquitectos
• Scope: Demolition, foundations and structure, sewerage and water supply
• Area: 1450m2
• Project: 2015
• Construction: 2016
• Photography: NVE
• Contractor: NVE
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This historic building in the heart of Lisbon rises with masonry load-bearing walls of irregular mortar stone, profusely fenestrated, and with resistant interior walls in perforated brick masonry.

At the beginning of the work, it was found that the building had structural damage, resulting from a settlement phenomenon, with the rotation of the R. Miguel Lupi façade. Foundation stabilization and reinforcement works were carried out, with a mat foundation and reinforced concrete layer on all the resistant stone masonry walls of the -1 floor.

The consolidation of the exterior walls was obtained by a reinforced concrete layer, on the above-ground floors, applied to the interior face of the walls, connected to the masonry with galvanized rod anchors. To complement the seismic reinforcement, the elevator core was built in reinforced concrete walls.
The reinforcement of the existing pavements was foreseen through the introduction of cold-formed profiles paired with the existing joists.

The building was expanded with the construction of another floor for housing, with dormers, at the level of the existing ceiling, including the construction of a new steel hipped roof.