U knjizi Flanna O’Briena Treći policajac pripovjedač je u potrazi za policijskom postajom. Kad napokon tamo stigne, zamjećuje da zgrada nema dubine, da se sastoji samo od fasade, da je dvodimenzionalna.
Na određeni način kuća Schmuck sadrži sličnu komponentu, iako razriješenu na potpuno suprotan način. Kuća na obronku je jednoetažna, ulazna strana reducirana je na malobrojne elemente: dvije horizontalne ploče od naturbetona, između ­njih – povučen u dubinu i također od naturbetona – zid kuće, jedna vrata, prozora nema, tri fina stupa i spremište za alat kao sjeverni završetak tog prednjeg prostora.
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In Flann O’Brien’s book The Third Policeman, the narrator searches for a police station. After he finally finds it, he realizes that the building has no depth. It consists only of the façade, it is two-dimensional.
In a way, the Schmuck house has a similar component, but resolved in a completely different way. The house set on a hillside has a single floor, the entrance side is reduced to just a few elements: two horizontal raw concrete slabs, in between them – recessed into the depth, also made of raw concrete – the wall of the house, one door, no windows, three fine columns and a tool shed as the northern end of this frontal space.
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