High on the hilltop overlooking Marlow and the Thames Valley sits a plot of land waiting for something to happen. The client's brief was clear, "design our family a house for a lifetime that is exciting, enjoyable, healthy, with respect to environmental, sustainable and ecological issues". Careful analysis of the way in which the family leads their life and the spaces they require produced a series of "pavilions" all marked by their own materiality in response to their uses, timber, copper, render and stone. Planning policies included PPS7 (early version to paragraph 55 and 79) to illustrate and exceptions house of world class quality. These formed a specific relationship based on approach, courtyard, views and light. The results produce a startling scheme.