The project's site, very close to the Panama Canal, falls within an area governed by garden-city rules and adjoins a protected zone of tropical forest on one side. The houses run across four levels. On the ground floor are the parking and a service area; on the first, the living room and kitchen, which open onto the rear garden through a retractable sliding enclosure that removes the division between inside and out. On the second level is the night zone, comprising three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Completing the composition is an inhabitable roof terrace, reached through a sliding rooflight, equipped with a six-person hot tub, a barbecue area and a solarium, with room enough besides for an outdoor sitting area. Compositionally, the design set out to break the conventional pattern of terraced houses built from solid blocks stacked vertically, replacing it with an atypical arrangement in which the solid block sits horizontally, almost suspended at the second level (the night zone), since the first level is entirely in glass and the ground floor is open. Openings have been cut into that pure, solid volume, emphasised by cantilevered frames in a deliberately dark colour, in contrast with the white of the façade.
