From the street, the upper floor floats as a crisp white box, its stone-edged roof slab tapering to a knife-thin line. Floor-to-ceiling openings alternate with bands of vertical timber fins, so bedrooms take in light and view while the facade keeps its privacy. Along its base runs a dark bronze planter ledge, and the greenery spilling over it softens the line where the volume meets the soffit below. At ground level, a freestanding wall of grey veined stone, cut into tall slabs with slim metal reveals, screens the garage and anchors the composition. At the far corner, a pair of angled stone-clad columns carries the overhang, structure made visible rather than hidden.
Arrival unfolds as a sequence of compression and release. Two strips of large-format pale stone pavers, split by a planted spine, lead beneath the timber ceiling into a recessed entry court. Here the house opens vertically: a screw pine rises from a circular planter set in a pebble-lined reflecting pool, stone slabs step across the water, and a tall pivot door stands against a finely ribbed white wall that catches raking light. Through the double-height entry, the stair and the rear garden are already in view.
The rear elevation turns fully toward the water. The ground floor steps down in shallow stone platforms to a covered terrace that holds an outdoor dining room and lounge beneath the same timber soffit, the marble floor running uninterrupted from inside to out. Beyond, a long rectangular pool with an integrated spa and sun shelf sits parallel to the house, edged in gravel and lawn. Above, a continuous balcony runs the length of the upper floor, and at one end a corner room projects past the main volume, open on two sides to the palms and the horizon.
The palette stays deliberately narrow: white stone, grey veined stone, warm timber, dark bronze metal, and planting used as a building material in its own right. Shade, water and landscape carry as much architectural weight as the structure itself, and every room is placed to borrow the garden beyond it.
