A corner plot, a multigenerational family, and two briefs in one: complete privacy between guests and family today, and an independent home for a grown son tomorrow.
The plan resolves both with a single move. Two wings hinge on a double-height entrance, opening onto a small court and a single tree — the quiet center of the house. To one side, a self-contained guest wing with its own living and sleeping areas. To the other, the family's world: a service spine of kitchen, storage, laundry, and staff quarters, and a living zone that opens double-height toward the garden, with dining and an open kitchen flowing as one space.
The prayer room works as a spatial valve. Closed, it is a room of its own. Opened, the ground floor becomes one continuous living landscape — the plan adapts to the day, not the other way around.
Above, five bedrooms and an office overlooking the internal garden. And on the deck floor, the house anticipates its future: a complete apartment — living area, kitchenette, two bedrooms, private roof garden — reached by its own stair, so a son can one day live independently without ever crossing the family zone.
An early project, and the clearest evidence that the thinking came before the style: the house was designed from how this family lives — and how it will live — outward.