This new house in Cambridge represents a departure for the Practice from more traditional forms of housing. Working closely with the client the brief was prepared with great attention to detail. The resulting design , a combination of compound curves bisected radially to form living spaces of varying height and level, has produced a series of exciting and unusual volumes and spaces. The main living area includes a 'starry sky' ceiling incorporating nearly two thousand fibre optic lenses which gently pulstae between blue and white light. Wired throughout for computers, software allows for monitoring the house's services from within the buidling and , through the internet, from anywhere in the world. Environmental issues have been an important consideration and the house, which incorporates an advanced VRV (variable refrigerant volume) system with high levels of insulation, is designed to be energy efficient, solar gain being redistributed throughout the house with heat recovered from exhaust air. Approached from the east by an elliptical forecourt, the house has gardens with lawns and a volleyball court on the south and west sides. Diverse planting includes many deciduous, conifer and fruit trees, lawns with driifts of bulbs and shrubs and herbaceous borders.