The project provides a modern living space on a site closely hemmed in by surrounding buildings. The original owners, both musicians, were passionate about modern architecture, and developed a close dialogue with the architects in seeking to make a generous living space of quality and scale. The site was a two-dimensional plot with two elevations and party walls , a tube of available space typical of Dublin mews lanes and backlots.The architects were interested in exploring how this tube could be used to maximise living space and reverse the traditional Dublin section with reception rooms below bedrooms. As a result, the major living space found its natural place on the first floor as a single room with light from either end and from above, with fireplace and seating over the garden and cooking and dining to the lane. Side walls thickened to make space for sculpture, seats, the kitchen, and a Japanese garden, skylit but visible from the ground floor only.