The house is designed to capture and frame views, provide shelter from the wind and to optimize the use of passive solar energy and natural stack ventilation. It is integrated with the landscape to the extent that the mountain-side  flows on to he roof at the rear of the house and the retaining walls are made from the scree excavated for the house. The planting scheme treats the house as a topographic element using only indigenous plants chosen for their suitability to the microclimate.  The house is fully disabled accessible, providing wheelchair access to  the terraced slope of the mountain behind