The house is perched above Ruby Bay, Tasman and extends out to the south an improbable extent to rest delicately on a pair of well anchored columns, forming a dramatic approach on arrival.

The house is conceived as a protective shell, with a weathered steel rainscreen over it’s painted cladding and with expansive openings framing the breath-taking panoramic views. Generous overhangs and louvred screens offer shading and shelter from the sun, wind and rain throughout the changing seasons.

Entrance is via a stair from the driveway level below. The house is rectangular in plan, with the bedrooms located to the south and living areas to the north. It sits high above the sea and has views to the mountains in the west, towards hills to the south and out across Tasman Bay to the east.

The house is embedded into the site with exposed concrete blocks used as retaining and bracing walls, contrasting with the delicacy of douglas fir posts and beams of the main living space, which is lined in oukume plywood. Around a corner at the top of the stair, the hallway to the bedrooms is treated as a colour-box, with reds and oranges picking up colours in the spotted gum floors.