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The plot sits inside a mature neighbourhood of individual houses, with street access, established planting along the neighbouring boundaries and an outlook down towards the coast. The task was to place five homes on it without adding a heavy block to the street. The plan is symmetrical around a central circulation zone: paired apartments on the lower residential levels and a larger residence on the top, with parking, storage and services below, and a landscaped edge between the building and the street.

Curved horizontal bands wrap the corners of each floor plate, and a darker vertical screen at the centre marks the entrance and the core. The composition divides the volume into horizontal and vertical parts, which is what keeps it in scale with the neighbours. The recessed entrance with its stone-edged planting turns a shared circulation point into the visual anchor of the building. Covered balconies and projections give each apartment usable outdoor space and shade.

Light wall surfaces, darker horizontal framing, fair-faced concrete, glass, and the vertical screen at the centre, with landscaping at ground level. The planning documentation records renewable-energy provisions.