The Passageway House is a miniature private residence near the Danube River in Novi Sad. The client, a downsizing couple, dreamed of living in the twinkling, historical city center while maintaining a quiet haven at home.

The house is positioned in an urban context that is unique to this part of Eastern Europe: a pasaž, a semi-private passageway, leads to a common courtyard where several family homes share a greenspace. This distinctive configuration creates a dense and vibrant urban environment, where neighbours share resources and a common gate.

The house is vernacular in its simplicity; it sits in the courtyard like a white triangle, sloping to one side.

All elements of the house are white, light, and delicate. The thin steel posts of the stair guide the eye upward towards the high ceilings. Storage is hidden behind white panels that fade into the white walls. Upstairs, the slope of the ceiling terminates in a storage unit with clean white surfaces. The window frames the cedar tree in the courtyard.

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