A house lifted above its own garden.
The house resolves into a single horizontal volume, raised off the site on slender columns. The garden runs underneath, the wind crosses freely, and the roof slab cantilevers out to shade the glazed faces.
Lifting the house solved three things at once: privacy from the street, permanent cross ventilation, and a ground level that stays garden instead of becoming a plinth.
A slatted timber panel closes one side and warms the whole. Concrete is left bare on the slab and the stair. Glass, in black floor-to-ceiling frames, opens the interior onto the lawn.
Three materials, no disguise — each shows itself as it is. The finish lives in how they meet: the plumb of the slats, the sharp edge of the slab, the joint that isn’t there.
Access is a flight of cantilevered concrete steps, without a handrail, cascading from the raised floor until it touches the lawn.
It is the piece that gives the house its scale and the first detail you notice from the street. It demands precise formwork, controlled pouring and patient striking — there is no fixing it afterwards.
At the back, a timber deck extends the living room outdoors, under a pergola of timber structure and glass roofing that filters the sun without closing off the sky.
The metal flue marks the outdoor fireplace, and a timber stair drops to the garden. This is the side of the house where the late afternoon is spent.
Continuous garden, sheltered entrance and service area beneath the raised floor — the ground keeps running under the house.
Living and dining turned towards the large glazed panels, continuous with the veranda and the deck.
Timber deck, glazed pergola and outdoor fireplace, open to the lawn.
Behind the scenes of the builds, construction timelapses and the handover of the keys — all first on our Instagram.
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