House on Sky Road draws its own emphatic datum line. Panning from the contoured hills either side this house registers and faces the force seaward winds while creating the opportunity for sheltered microclimate within.
A forty-two-metre long cast-in-situ concrete beam spans a dip in a local ridge to enable a clear-spanning living, dining and kitchen space at the core of the house. Two lower perpendicular flanking wings lie either side – one of the bedrooms and another of ancillary spaces. The resultant primary apertures made by the beam are in contrast to the remaining smaller window openings with their own expressed lintels.
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