This house sits in a street in Paddington behind a façade, which for much time has held its fort in this place.

The nature of a terrace can be re-examined, however; a concept that can provide many solutions; but here, slivers of light to the west emerge from the planning that is resolved around the front façade’s present forms (a door on the east of the street façade forms an immediate agenda for rooms to the west); there is always a consideration of moving toward the light where light is difficult to achieve.

The rear façade is ‘enclosing’ rather than ‘open’ and develops a relation with the outside like a widening aperture to the light. It constricts the entry of light and assists in the generation of the facade within a tripartite composition. It holds the space like the sphinx in Egypt, the rear courtyard’s repose lays in the subtleties of space between two yielding arms, the two courtyard walls.