A discovery gave rise to this Summer Kitchen: a storage room on the flat roof of a building, belonging to a French client, with a view and sun exposure that called for far more than mere storage.
The infrastructure was already in place—water, drainage, electricity—which made everything simpler. That space could become a kitchen: not just any kitchen, but one conceived for summer days—open, bright, without the seriousness of the interior.
The construction therefore followed a logic of lightness and coherence. A masonry structure organises the different areas needed for cooking—each function in its place, without improvisation. White microcement covers everything, from base to finish, creating a continuous surface that reflects light and visually clarifies the whole. Discreet doors conceal the appliances and ensure that what is seen is only the form.
The result is a space that does not try to look like an ordinary kitchen moved outdoors—it is, rather, a place of its own, designed for the heat, for Lisbon’s light, and for the quiet pleasure of cooking under the sky.
