The brief was for a private yet luxurious home tailored to the owner’s lifestyle. The house needed to be a home, but allow for frequent entertainment of guests accommodating functions for up to 100 guests. It should be sensitive to the seaside context, easy to maintain, and befitting of a sophisticated contemporary lifestyle. This is a house for a Bachelor, with masculine qualities reflected in the choice and layering of materials and textures. The result is a house that complements the owner’s taste and lifestyle, & connects contemporary architecture with its natural surroundings, turning the home into a modern re-imagining of seafront living.