House, Cantil Bay · Completed 2026
Four floors of board-formed concrete, black steel and glass, each one stepping further out over a travertine garden, under an oak roof that reaches 4.5 metres past the walls.
Section
The plan is a concrete core and one blade wall. Everything else hangs from them: three slabs that step out 2.5, 3.6 and 3.9 metres, so every floor has the garden below it and open sky beside it.
Material
Concrete poured against sawn 150 mm boards, so the timber grain stays in the wall. Oiled oak overhead. Honed travertine underfoot. Move the detail frame over the building to read each one (on a phone, tap the wall).
Tap the wall to look closer.
Evening
Ninety warm lights at 2700 K sit in the ceilings, the pendants and the soffit. When the sun drops below the bay, the glass stops reflecting and the house shows what it is made of.
Inside
Plan
Each level is a single room around the core: kitchen and table on the ground, the living room above, a library loggia, and the glass pavilion under the roof. The drawing is cut 1.25 m above each floor and sits exactly on the model.
Commission
Oriel Ward takes on two houses a year, usually where a slope, a view or a tree makes the obvious plan impossible. Tell us about the ground and we will reply within a week.