The clients are a young couple of fashion designers with a small, growing
family. Their need of additional space, the desire for an improved image
and presentation of the house towards the street and a limited budget
were the basic requirements for this project. The idea of wrapping portions
of the existing structure with a perforated metal screen that sometimes
encloses the tall bamboo plants produces a hybrid image where the boundary
between old and new, artificial and natural are somehow blurred.