House of Margo is a small-scale restaurant project located on the ground floor of a registered historical monument in central Yerevan. With a total area of just 150 square meters, the project required careful and respectful intervention within an existing structural framework that could not be altered.

The site is defined by a sequence of small stone-framed rooms, part of the building’s original load-bearing system, which could not be modified. Rather than treat this as a limitation, the design team embraced the fragmented spatial layout as the central narrative of the project. The result is a restaurant conceived not as a typical dining venue, but as an intimate home-like experience — a domestic spatial typology reimagined for hospitality.

The space is divided into four main halls, each designed to evoke a different domestic function:

• The entry foyer sets the tone with personal scale and warm materials.
• The living room, with a communal dining table, connects visually to a music corner, featuring a piano and a large custom shelf filled with assorted ceramic cups.
• The “home kitchen” — not a literal cooking space but a spatial atmosphere — includes an integrated bar, reinforcing the feeling of informality and shared use between staff and guests.
• The final space, referred to as the library, offers a quieter, den-like experience: leather seating, wooden desks, bookshelves, and carefully curated objects create an environment that feels personal, layered, and reflective.

Material choices reference both the historic context and the imagined narrative of the “home”: wood, aged leather, soft lighting, layered textiles, and vintage interior pieces all contribute to an environment that feels inhabited rather than staged.

House of Margo demonstrates how spatial constraints and historical preservation rules can be reframed as conceptual opportunities — allowing architecture and interior design to work not in spite of limits, but through them. The result is a sequence of intimate, emotionally charged spaces, where memory, design, and storytelling intersect.