When we saw the «House with Lions», the so-called merchant Beim's house built in 1900, we wanted to emphasize its historical appearance with some contrasting modern solution.
The idea was this: outside — a richly decorated historical facade, and inside — the future.
There was a bank in the room, and all the walls and ceilings were sewn with drywall.
When everything was taken off, inside there is a shabby beauty — the vaulted ceilings in the entrance group are simply maddening.

And it was decided to keep everything as it is, minimally working only the lower part. An interactive accent — ice-screen, on which visitors see themselves as moving thermal fields, is such a sci-fi look from an almost post-apocalyptic future at a person as a carrier of a certain temperature and, perhaps, even a source of danger.
I came in from the street in winter and immediately stood out against the background of warm-blooded people warmed by hot coffee.