Caruso St John Architects

1991
Location: London
Project Status: Competition

This competition design for a house of glass proposes that optical phenomena can make a spatial architecture whose appearance is not about transparency but about simultaneous perception and inexpressible limit.

The house is located in a mixed and dense part of the city on a street frontage. The front façade is a combination of glass, real openings and mirror, and reflects the surroundings differently from different angles and at different times of the day.