The former doctors-house consisted of a long range of connected rooms without relation or contact with the spacious, north orientated garden. The ground floor is stripped from redundant extensions and expanded with a pavilion structure.

The new volume keeps a small distance from the adjacent building. The volume become a garden pavilion within the restrictions of a row house. The specific position on the plot creates a narrow passage between the new volume and the neighbors. This allows daylight to penetrate deep into the main volume.

The plan is resulting in a range of interconnected spaces in which the banal complexity of a family house is emphasized. The new constellation allows all spaces to subtly blend together without losing their own character. A perforation in the existing ceiling of the main volume creates a second relationship with the upper floor and allows the light to enter the house from above and is linking both floors.

The pavilion construction consists of a rough plinth that can be used as a seat element combined with the chimney. All structural interventions are built within the same concrete stone. An elegant curtain wall structure is constructed on the plinth, carrying the wooden ceiling. To protect the soft pine wood, we used a simple aluminum cladding, referring to Upper Lawn by the Smithsons.