From the start, the owners for this villa wanted something different. They wanted to be welcomed into their property by a garden and not by a defensive wall. They wanted the garden to be present in the entire experience of their home.

Intuitively, the first sketch generated split the property in a yin-yang relationship between the garden and the area allocated for construction. The garden would occupy the entire street front and skew back to a single point; the built form occupying the rear edge of the site and tapering to a point along the street front. The line between the garden and the built part of the property developed into a ‘fuzzy edge’ blurring the garden and the interior of the house.

With the creation of this ‘fuzzy edge’, the garden invaded the house. The house, in turn, invaded the garden. Self referential spaces are created within the house where one would experience the inside and the outside of spaces at once. Along the street, the property will be a welcomed anomaly. A bit of garden within a walled street. The house will vaguely be visible with it.