The design of this sustainable family home in an AONB revisits modernist ideas of flexibility, variety in use, inclusivity and scale. Catja de Haas Architects (lead and project architect), with support from Takero Shimazaki Architects The house con­sists of two oak-clad vol­umes that match the Oak trees in the gar­den direct­ed towards the sea and a large and high lounge space, enclosed by glass, cov­ered with a grass roof that extends the exist­ing gar­den and ris­es up to link the volumes. Two fur­ni­ture ele­ments, which can be sat on inside and out­side, cov­ered with recy­cled bot­tle glass, lay in the land­scape and con­nect the gar­den-lounge. Holes in its sur­face allow fur­ni­ture on sticks to define the space around it. Pull-out stor­age box­es on wheels pro­vide seat­ing for up to 24 peo­ple and an upstairs liv­ing room with views over the sea dou­bles up as an over­flow bedroom. The first floor liv­ing room floats above a semi open kitchen along which the stairs goes up to a bal­cony that links the two vol­umes. The posi­tion­ing of the twist­ed vol­umes, as well as the ris­ing of the grass roof to cov­er the low bal­cony gives the lounge a lay­ered archi­tec­tur­al qual­i­ty which can be expe­ri­enced as one space, but also as a series of more inti­mate places and corners. Mate­ri­als play with the inside?—?out­side theme: the colours in the lounge are dom­i­nat­ed by the exposed CLT the house is con­struct­ed with to empha­sise the colour of the gar­den, where­as the inte­ri­ors of the blocks are paint­ed, pas­sage into them marked by oak doors.