The architecture of the building is defined as a piece of sculpture or land-art that integrates landscape and built-form. The building comprises three different coloured boxes placed at different angles on the site: the black living room block, the red sleeping block and the white sky block that forms the second level.

Each block has its own interior and personality, creating a sequence of varied spaces with views to delight occupants as they move through the house. The blocks are oriented on the site to capture northern sunlight for solar power and internal thermal comfort, and angled to allow garden rooms to surround the house, creating changing vistas from within.

The design incorporates sustainable principles to maximise passive-solar design, cross-ventilation, water-saving technologies and thermal comfort across the seasons. The house is a beach house and holiday rental, using robust materials that require little maintenance, such as concrete, corrugated steel cladding, black form-ply, and oriented strand board (OSB) to create a sophisticated and durable material palette.