V knjigi Flanna O’Briena Tretji policaj pripovedovalec išče policijsko postajo. Ko nazadnje prispe do nje, opazi, da stavba nima globine, da je samo iz fasade, da je dvodimenzionalna.
Na določeni način vsebuje tudi hiša Schmuck podobno komponento, ki pa je razrešena na popolnoma drugačen način. Hiša na pobočju je enoetažna, vhodna stran je reducirana na maloštevilne elemente: dve horizontalni plošči iz surovega betona, med njima – pomaknjen v notranjost in prav tako iz surovega betona – zid hiše, ena vrata, oken ni, trije fini stebri in shramba za orodje kot severni zaključek tega prednjega 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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