The building is situated in a listed urban zone and changes to the form of the exterior shell were to be kept to the minimum. However, the spatial experience has been radically transformed.

The natural environment is now indivisible from the built. The boundary of the house is transered from the traditional front door to the front gate. Upon entering, a peripatetic journey begins to unfold on a sequence of platforms that flow between inside and outside.

Glass was used to absorb the ground floor verandas into the interior, which was cleared from the majority of walls, creating a constellation of spaces that breath between the opacity of the existing and the transparency of the new.

The volume of the new staircase is the core of the spatial order. Articulated as a carved monolith and clad in sheets of black glass, it is simultaneously volume and surface, present and absent, centre and periphery, reinforcing thus the dymamic relationship between interior and exterior.