Experimental architecture studio Bureau has taken a building apart and put it back together again, to create a home for the fictional protagonist of 1963 film The Servant.
Mr Barrett's House is a former garage and apartment in Geneva, Switzerland. Bureau founder Daniel Zamarbide used a process he describes as "surgical intervention" to slice the building open, tear out its interiors, and then reassemble with a far more complex layout.

The top half of the building, which takes the form of a traditional Alpine chalet, was completely removed and restructured. It was then placed back atop of the building's concrete base, which originally was used as a car garage. Bureau was then free to create an entirely new interior, more suited to the drama of the film.

The new 70-square-metre layout is open, with double-height spaces stretching up from the ground floor to the roof.
Windows and openings play an important role in this arrangement. They are carefully organised to provide views between rooms, while large, circular porthole-style windows puncture the external walls.
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