A double-volume house in dark cladding, entered up a flight of stone and released into a courtyard held under a deep soffit.
A tall, tightly framed street elevation gives nothing away. The house opens entirely to the rear, where the living, dining and pool terraces sit under one continuous overhang.
A guarded street face, an open rear.
The approach is deliberately formal: a straight run of stone steps between planted beds, flanked by walls that carry the house’s full height. Privacy is resolved by orientation rather than by boundary walls.
One deep soffit over everything that matters.
A single roof plane extends well past the glazing line and stays at one level across dining, lounge and pool deck. It shades the interior through the middle of the day and ties three outdoor rooms into one space.
Vertical dark cladding on the upper volume reads as a solid mass from the street, then dissolves at the rear where the same rhythm is repeated in glazing mullions.
The soffit height was set in visualisation, tested against summer and winter sun angles before it was built.
