Completed in 2003, this beachfront home located in the heart of an established resort community provides a seasonal residence for a family and diverse guests. Exquisite materials including pear wood and Italian limestone complements and fine craftsmanship in a responsive design that affirms the sensibilities of its denizens. The approach invites a sensory interactivity with the materiality of the structure, and a cerebral appreciation of the boundless optimism that brought the house to fruition. Residents enjoy a multiplicity of interior options in terms of use and sociability. The house is divided into three, two-story pavilions connected by one-story hallways. The configuration affords simultaneous opportunities for entertaining and privacy in a home designed to accommodate frequent entertaining. Even the expansive living room, whose undulating ceiling reiterates the natural vocabulary of the tidal ebb and flow, affords varied moments and niches for convivial sociability, or quiet contemplation of the view. This conscious nod to the flexible spaces of Mies van der Rohe’s own free-flowing structures allows for residents to arrange their chairs in an intimate gathering around the elegant limestone fireplace on evenings when the air from the ocean is chill. Or to throw open the doors of kitchen to expand the space to the pool courtyard to accommodate animated afternoon soirees. The connection of interior space and outdoor living is explicit in the configuration of structure to courtyard and pool. A sheltering breezeway implies and effects a cooling shade. The structure serves as a visual and visceral guide from heart of the space to the exterior court. The pool cabana frames the space in counterpoint to the seeming infinite reflections of sky and water of the turquoise pool. This same cinematic framing is reiterated elsewhere in the house reinforcing the dynamic and the timeless, directing views and capturing light in a harmonious embodiment of presence and being. The surrounding landscape is spare in its treatment—rolling lawns and tasteful trees and shrubbery at the periphery—and serves as a visual liaison between the scenery that is the borrowed landscape and the structure itself. Not unlike a stage set, the house manifests a series of shifting planes and volumes, a careful orchestration of negative and positive, which capture and create a play of ambient light and shadow, a dramatic arena enlivened by the presence or absence of people. A seasonal beachfront house for a husband and wife planning to entertain frequently and with a twenty something son who visits on occasional weekends. The residence is divided into three (3) two-story pavilions connected by one – story hallways that in plan form a leeward side pool courtyard. A broken roof line diminishes the building’s mass, while a continuous louvered sunshade aligned with the first floor ceiling creates a viewing frame aligned with the distant ocean horizon. Cantilevered slabs of the second level are connected to the limestone pavers at ground level by expanses of floor to ceiling glass, floating the upper volumes and further lightening the building’s presence. 2 story high isolated stone walls anchor building to ground at defining locations. Pavilion adjacencies are organized by the amount of time they’re occupied–the least used southern entry pavilion has two upper guest rooms and an office and media room below; a single living room occupies the middle pavilion; the north pavilion is where day to day living occurs- garage, kitchen, family room and the master suite stacked one above the other. Post – tensioned concrete beams allows an unobstructed view of the ocean from all of the eastern rooms. The western pool fills a courtyard created by the pool cabana and sun sheltering breezeway. The vast living room with its undulating ceiling provides numerous views and seating areas, some intimate, some expansive.