Two dilapidated row houses at a busy intersection give way to a new building. A building-high claustra shields the house from the intersection and nearby train traffic, and corrects the slope in the plot shape.

Behind the claustra, the house stands as a light and compact stack of plot-wide rooms. Initiated by the generous ceiling height of the living space, the rooms stagger half a floor each, arranging themselves in stages along a central void.
A fine structure of smoothly polished concrete slabs spans the full width of the house with minimal thickness. Wide band windows and fully glazed interior joinery lend lightness and transparency to the shallow building