Inside, the first floor has a wide-open plan from one end to the other. It's even more wide-open when the glass doors are opened to their adjacent courtyards at either end, extending to the outdoor living spaces. "When the house is closed, it can be quite cozy on a cold and rainy night," says Ehrlich. "When everything is opened up, the house transforms into something more like a pavilion."
Vivace. While in music "vivace" refers to a composition that is very lively and up-tempo, in architecture it can refer to a design where there's a lot going on. Stairs, cable-suspended bridges, spaces that are connected vertically and horizontally, natural and artificial lighting that comes at us from many directions as well as all the objects that inhabit the space create an architecture that is decidedly vivace, maybe even vivacissimo (even livelier).