On a sloped site with a width of 10.5 metres that doglegs between two Freeman Bay streets, the client envisioned a modern house with a pool for herself and three sons.

The main street frontage was a folding of form to adopt the facade lines of the two disparate neighbouring architectural typologies. The fold facilitates a pedestrian entry into the house that lands in a circle of water. The living area is broken into public and private spaces by a mirrored service core housing a bar, a bathroom and the stairs leading to the main bedroom.

The pool courtyard was developed as a pivot to rotate the axis along the secondary leg of the site. The far end of the pool court provides a seating area to view the city whilst functioning as the roof of the children's wing. Access to this wing runs down alongside the pool courtyard. As these rooms are on a gradient at the lower end of the site, a level lawn area for the children to play on was constructed.

This house was conceived as a sculptural insertion within an existing urban context. Elements of the neighbouring houses were acknowledged and appropriated, including the gutter height of the bungalow and the frontage lines of both houses. The gable roof forms were assimilated but inverted in the entry stair. We played with the traditional villa construct of the 'front room' that is public to the street, while other areas of the house used screening to limit neighbourly intrusion.