Squeezed in between other old buildings, this narrow house was in a desolate condition prior to its conversion. The architects took advantage of this situation to gut the building and to reorganize it completely. Only the granite outer walls and the load-bearing timber joists of the intermediate floors were retained. Internally, the house has been recreated as a vertical sequence of spaces, the dominant feature of which is perhaps the straight-flight timber staircase that cantilevers out from the side wall of the buiding.