Our brief was to take this piece of ingenuity and extend it into another recently acquired site. Lung space is more of a luxury in a city than a built space. Making the garden our centrepiece, we conceptualized our house to honour it. As you enter, you can look through from the foyer to the living room, through the conservatory and then into a beautifully landscaped garden. The green takes up a third of the site and can be enjoyed from any part of the house. 
The continuous, almost monolithic white marble floor helps further accentuate the open ground floor plan. We did not define our spaces with walls, but with changing volumes. Each space varies in height, proportional to its use. Interspersed with our spaces, we have inserted internal courtyards that house local plants that grow wild and unrestricted giving the house its tropical feel. 

The double-height conservatory opens to the east, welcoming the morning sun, lighting up the white marble floor, warming up the tall wooden-clad columns, and lime plastered walls. The house is well lit through other parts of the day with the help of its sunroofs and internal courtyards. No walls separate the house from the garden. Massive 18-foot slide fold doors that can be opened completely to let the outside provide the perfect ambiance for a holiday home in the heart of the city.

The Eastern façade of the house, characterized by its clay block columns and concrete walls, also opens into the family kitchen. Having access to the garden, the house has also been designed to enjoy garden parties and spending time outdoors. The garden, almost a courtyard as it is locked in on all sides had a green lawn, fringed by exotic ficus and temple trees. As requested by our clients, it houses a pine-wood pergola with one of its columns sitting in a lily pond. Flowering climbers creep up its supports and a most melodic xylophone sits on a table waiting to be played.