Apartment ME is a minimal apartment located in Lisbon, Portugal, designed by RAR.STUDIO.The project is located in the traditional Mouraria neighbourhood, a typical area of the city, with narrow cobbled streets surrounded by groups of stacked houses with three or more levels.The clients, a German couple, needed a second home to link their stays between Berlin and Lisbon.

The apartment designed by RAR.STUDIO unfolds around a nucleus of stairs from which the entire functional program is distributed.The house has privileged implantation, which allows it to open to the outside in three of its four limits, with large vertical windows recovered from the old house, which at times become narrow balconies and at others, widen the useful areas of the dining room and the kitchen.

The white of the plaster that covers all the walls contrasts with the enamelled black and reddish ceramic floors. In addition, the furniture used, with designs from the beginning of the last century, enhances the relationship between past and present, which coexist harmoniously inside the house.Having the Kreuzberg - Mouraria axis as backdrop, the refurbishment operation celebrates Lisbon’s early 20th century residential architecture, solving prosaic details with simple solutions, in an eminently colloquial intervention.