During the 1950’s Lina Bo Bardi designed Casa De Vidro as a private residence for her and her husband. The house was in the undeveloped rainforest region outside of Sao Paulo. During the time of construction, Brazil was under a strict dictatorship which placed a ban on commodities such as gambling, watching television, and heavy censorship of expressing political views. Also known as “The Glass House” the entire living space of the residence was surrounded in a glass facade exposing the interior spaces to the outside. This design choice in relation to the extreme conditions of the government were a driving factor in understanding Lina Bo Bardi’s house through the narrative of surveillance. The scale model (pictured right) is a representative model that is a series of transparent sections to better understand the progression of transparency to solidity within the house. When observed from the front, the sections of the house are layered and appear as an X-Ray through the building. Each of the sections are removable from the base model as the viewer of the model is surveying each space of the house as representation of the militaristic government keeping a close surveillance on the people of Brazil.