Island View new build Howick Beach

The house is designed as a series of canopies that float over the
land. The core elements of the house arrangement consists of:
1. LAND the level at the ground retains solidity and a grounding
to the earth.
2. TREES - moving higher up the site, the spaces are about the
trees, the canopy they create over the land and the filtered light
through their branches.
3. HORIZON - finally the upper levels are about the sky, a look
out towards the sea, a connection to the neighbourhood and
distant horizons.
The folded roofs float past each other, and are connected by a
light stairwell that ties them together. Spaces below these roofs
are designed to interconnect spatially, reducing corridor length
and encouraging visual and physical connections from sea to
trees, from land to sky.

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