Clear boundaries between the inside and the outside are disappearing in architecture. Traditional interior elements steadily replace wooden benches and static lights in plots and terraces: carpets, curtains, settees and mobile floor-lamps. Yet the harsh weather conditions in winter make people hide all this under a glass roof.  

It seems from the photographs that this is an individual house surrounded by a pine forest, yet this apartment is situated in a newly built block of flats in a suburb of Vilnius. The conservatory occupying almost a third of the entire area is one of the most characteristic and visually most attractive elements of this flat, which opens to the infinite outside.  

The atypical spatial structure has dictated clear solutions to the architect Jūratė Raguckienė. The largest part of the glass volume is occupied by the kitchen and the dining zone, which have become the axis of the flat. The white polished kitchen furniture merges with whitish walls thus revealing the monumental veneered dining table.

In this project, the architect emphasises the harmony of materials and pure aesthetics. Although the glass volume has been divided into three spaces, the kitchen – dining zone, the conservatory and the cloakroom, the designer has used opaque glass partitions instead of massive walls. Such partitions separate, but also connect. The row of glass surfaces and the glass single-gable roof guarantee enough natural light into every corner of the flat, which is particularly important for the bathroom.

In this, like in other projects, the designer confirms that the best lighting is invisible to the naked eye. Perhaps, the brightest lamp is the floor-lamp with a monumental and tilted shade at the dining table. All other lamps perform their function by subtly lighting the surfaces of the ceiling and the walls.