The looser social and familial relations that are particular to the ‘time’ of the holiday house are accommodated efficiently within two pavilions that together form the dwelling.

The use of unfinished compressed cement sheet panels produces a building that is robust, and marked by both a financial and architectural economy. The subtle variation in the treatment of these panels – fixed, operable and /or perforated – affords an openness of program, an index of use and a responsiveness to climatic and seasonal variation.

When occupied the building can be opened out to the seaside environment through a series of doors, which breach the shell. When not occupied the building becomes an uncommonly neat pair of forms.