The house occupies the common middle suburban condition of the rear subdivided site, and the less common social condition of a household of five adult people. It aims to develop strategies for this impure villa type by responding rigorously the various ipressures placed on it.
The ground floor footprint is treated as a fragment of a very large courtyard house-extending to the boundary where possible, and cutting the courtyards from this. Courtyard cuts are irregular, allowing subtle adjustment of areas.

The plan satisfies exactly the minimum Planning Scheme open space requirements.
The upper floor is treated as a pavilion with no relationship to the ground floor footprint, allowing required upper floor setbacks, and producing cantilevered overhangs to courtyards, and top lit roof to the lower floor.
Glazing to the upper floor is maximized under the town planning overlooking constraints and those of domestic framing. A consistent sill is set at 1600 above floor level. Gaps between standard window frames are infilled with a panel to read as a band of glazing.

A simple version of the roof garden is created via a balcony constrained by overlooking impacts- a walled terrace providing light and outlook.
The large number of rooms is impacted on the limited volume. Internal walls are removable without appearing so. Room plans are inflected irregularly to handle difficult planning.
The building is expressed as a distorted and rusticated version of its neighbour/ parent house- rendering it as a slightly 1970s –looking intensification of its context