Stacked horizontal slabs over full-height glazing, with an arrival court that reads as part of the landscape rather than a driveway.
A flat site, so the house makes its own horizon. Two heavy floor plates are offset against each other, and the gap between them does all the shading.
The forecourt is the first room.
Arrival is handled as a designed space: gravel, planting and a single sculptural element, with parking absorbed into the composition instead of fronting it. The house is entered from the side of the court, not head-on.
Two plates, offset, and the shadow between them.
The upper slab oversails the lower on the north face and pulls back on the south, so the same two elements produce deep shade where it is needed and open light where it is not.
Glazing runs uninterrupted between the plates. Structure is pushed back from the edge so the corners read as open, and the slabs appear to float.
The offset between the two slabs was set in visualisation — a decision about shadow, not about plan.
