SAMESAME is part of two Pombaline buildings in Lisbon. One located at Rua da Madalena and the other at Beco do Rosendo.
Both buildings have undergone numerous changes over time that have distorted many of its historical characteristics. With the intention of regenerating it, after a comprehensive reading, from city to block, it was decided to install a co-living there, a concept created in the 60s in Denmark based on the principle of community where it is possible to sleep, live, eat and work in the same space.
Rua da Madalena thus gains nine rooms, six apartments (SAMESAME), a tea house with a garden and an artistic coworking space, and beco do Rosendo, a residence with six bedrooms and two apartments with a summer pavilion.
The rooms and apartments located in the six-storey building on Rua da Madalena constitute SAMESAME.
The rooms are small cork volumes that lean against the limits of the building, allowing light to enter through their gaps and lighten generous common areas designed to promote the meeting and conviviality between the inhabitants.
In the apartments the space served and the service spaces are separated. In this way, the first develops as a single space that can be divided into several zones and the second takes the form of a wooden engine that contains all the technical parts. Sometimes this engine opens and frames a specific view over Baixa Pombalina.
