On a suburban street beside a magnificent nineteenth-century park, two different families live on a shared plot. Both families wanted to combine the best views of the park with easy access to the street, the garden and the roof. By proposing a house of the least possible depth, the programme was spread over four or five floors while the garden was kept as large as possible.
Interpreting the party wall as a “first-aid measure” for the negotiations between the neighbours and their at times contradictory wishes led to two interlocking residential volumes, each richer than the underlying premise of both.
