The owners' brief for this holiday home was simple; maximize the sun, the views and the outdoor living. They wanted large outdoor living areas to spend their time relaxing outside, not inside. The house is a simple response to this brief; providing a delicate intervention into the landscape with a small footprint, to allow the owners to connect with the surrounding landscape without dominating it, whilst blurring the line between inside and outside. The steep, elevated site provides sweeping views over Mawhitipana Bay below and is covered in mature protected Pōhutukawa trees which form a large dominant green canopy.