Lake View House
Long admiring the work of the Pritzker prize winning Japanese architect, Tadao Ando the clients had aspirations of a home that used his famous gestures of material, poetics and connection to landscape. Needless to say, concrete, poetics and courtyards were central to the brief. The four-bedroom home makes the most of the long street frontage with an off-form concrete wall wrapping down both sides of the site and extending most of the length of the street frontage in one simple gesture.