Set in the maritime forest of a coastal barrier island, the site is a small peninsula surrounded on three sides by tidal wetlands.
The architecture of this residence employs materiality to articulate protection and set up a sense of orientation toward the distant ocean and views of wetlands all around.
A series of parallel concrete walls slices across the site toward the principal eastern view of the Atlantic Ocean. These strong walls are carefully pierced on the interior to provide a meandering cross-flow of light and air "across the grain" of the parallel planes of concrete.
Contrasting wirh the firm east-west running concrete walls are the softer, lighter in-fill panel walls. Running north-south, and separated from concrete by vertical structural steel. the in-fill walls are made of 6"cedar shingles and glass.