The design works in two directions. The horizontal layer of gate, motor court, and garage sits low and runs parallel to the street, screening the house behind it. Two bands of pale concrete paving, separated by strips of lawn, lead to the gate. Beyond it, the motor court is framed by a garage volume wrapped in vertical timber fins above a warm, full-width wood door, while the main house cantilevers overhead, its deep slab edges lined with planting. Shade arrives before the front door does.
The vertical layer is the house itself, three floors stacked with the clarity of a section drawing. The ground floor is the social level, given over to a covered terrace, an outdoor kitchen, and dining that extends directly onto the lawn. The second floor is more intimate, its edge defined by a long planted ledge that trails green down the facade. The third floor, reserved for the most private rooms, sits behind open terraces and slender vertical timber screens that filter the light and temper views from the beach.
The material palette is deliberately limited. Nothing is applied for effect; each material has a job. Board-formed concrete slabs give each floor its strong horizontal line, textured pale masonry anchors the street walls, and timber louvers and fins bring warmth and a shifting play of shadow through the day. Planting is treated as architecture rather than decoration, so the building reads less as an object placed in a garden than as a structure the garden has begun to climb.
Toward the water, the landscape completes the composition. A lap pool with a sun shelf and a separate jacuzzi runs parallel to the rear facade, while an exterior stair climbs alongside the house to the second-floor terrace. Stepping stones cross the lawn to the sand. To one side, a freestanding cabana with a thin cantilevered roof and a stone-clad rear wall offers shade and a second place to gather. Inside, timber ceilings and concrete walls carry the exterior language through, keeping the house consistent from the street to the shoreline.
