The approach sets the rhythm. A timber-slatted fence, broken by pale stone piers, holds the street line. Beyond it, a driveway of stone pavers set in grass leads to a recessed entry, where a single tree grows in a narrow planted slot beside a dark pivot door. Vertical timber screens flank the threshold and clad the garage volume, spaced tightly enough to filter light and loosely enough to let it through. Above, a continuous planter runs the full width of the second-floor slab, so the upper level appears to rest on a line of green.
The roof is the defining gesture: a thin cantilevered plane, timber on its underside, projecting well past the walls to shade the upper floor. At the rear, the same logic opens the house completely. The ground floor gives way to a covered loggia with a timber ceiling, an outdoor kitchen, and dining and lounge areas that step onto the pool terrace. The pool runs parallel to the house, and the lawn continues to a timber dock at the water’s edge. Upstairs, each suite opens onto a planted terrace, with vertical timber fins bookending the elevation.
Inside, a double-height hall carries the eye from front to back. A timber stair with open treads and a slim brass handrail rises against a full-height view of the garden, over an interior planting bed that curves beneath its lowest steps. Pale stone flooring carries from the living areas out to the loggia, and a gallery on the upper level looks down across the hall to the palms beyond.
The rooftop completes the sequence. Set back from the edges behind deep planters, it holds a second outdoor kitchen with a marble-topped counter on a timber base, a long dining table and a lounge, all beneath a slatted timber pergola on slender posts. Planting softens every edge, so the terrace reads as a garden lifted into the air rather than a roof put to use. A freestanding timber screen gives the kitchen its own enclosure. Above the canopy of palms, the house earns its name.
