Conceived as a weekend retreat for two extended families and friends, this dwelling is discreetly hidden from the main road traffic by a dense thicket of coastal casurinas. The house perches on the elevated edge of a gentle incline falling down to a sandy beach. The balance between convergence and divergence is reflected in the need for transparency, expansive views and wider connections and conversely, the need for intimacy, refuge and enclosure.
Externally this is expressed as a series of swirling rooves riding each other like waves, each one straining to see over the other. Inside, the plan fans, unfolding, bending and gathering its inner spaces as they transform fluidly in scale, atmosphere and outlook, before connecting with the outer foreground of grasses, coastal scrub and the long, thin dissolving horizon of bay, island and sky.