House with Glass Walls

The house is an old, narrow and very long palace-like building that had been abandoned for some time. Heritage rules required the exterior to stay much the same, while the back garden became a small oasis in the dense city.

Inside, the Portuguese design team revamped the prominent staircase. The rooms, with little of value left, were stripped back to their perimeter and filled with evenly spaced glass walls.

Against this romantic background, the plan was drawn like a filmstrip: a pure sequence, yet with every scene visible at once.