Our first encounter with Glasgow came through the eyes of photographer Raymond Depardon. In 2014, his exhibition “Un moment si doux” presented for the first time the photographs he took in Glasgow in 1980. The photographer does not focus solely on the decay of housing and urban dilapidation. He also casts a lucid gaze on the despair of the middle-class workers, the first victims of the staggering violence of this crisis. While his images bear witness to the end of an era, history reminds us that Glasgow was capable of taking an economic and cultural turn in the 21st century, transforming its image from an “industrial” city to the leading “cultural” city of the United Kingdom. The “mixed-use” program combines housing and offices. Located in a former industrial district of Glasgow, where the ruins of the slaughterhouses and the Meat Market still persist. On this abandoned site rises, level by level, a reinterpretation of the traditional Tenement typology - those contiguous collective buildings that define the Anglo-Saxon urban landscape. Beyond the form, it is the very concept of the Tenements Act 2004 (and its specific rules and limitations) that is being questioned here. What makes a place “home”? What boundaries define our private interior versus what is shared with those around us? Through very simple architectural devices - adjustments in height, offsets, distinctive materials - and a methodical assembly of the timber structure, we were able to redefine an individual sense of belonging within a… somewhat unusual collective society. The project can be likened to a form of staircase, distributing, step by step, a space dedicated to each of its inhabitants. Rising from the natural ground, it creates its own artificial topography, ascending confidently and descending gently back toward the earth. It seems to turn back on itself like an Ouroboros. Along its path, it forms a series of courtyards where the natural life of numerous trees, plants, and flowers unfolds. Each level accommodates both office spaces and residences. Every apartment is floor- through apartment: the kitchen and living room open onto a wide street, while the bedrooms - more intimate spaces - face the greenery. Each dwelling, each office grid, evolves at a different level from its immediate neighbor. In this way, the interplay between analogical repetition and subtle differentiation conveys a profound sense of uniqueness and cohesion.