The building programme called for a main house, meditation pavilion and guest cottage. The location is a new wine farm on a site of spectacular natural beauty. The design response achieves architecture of exquisite subtlety with minimum intervention on the pristine site, characterized by a minimalist design vocabulary.

Whilst each of the buildings is a response to the respective briefs the commonality lies in their essential expression of enclosure. The primary building components of wall, floor slab and roof, are reduced to planar elements throughout, composed to create a sculptural interplay between mass and void.

This lightness of touch is immediately evident when approaching the main house. The private accommodation it contains appears as a simple volume poised above a loose landscape of ground planes which define the principal living area.

At Beau Constance, space and scale have been masterfully manipulated. Its inhabitants are provided with a spatial experience which is richly layered, and perfectly in tune with its natural environment.

The project is one of conceptual rigor and architectural clarity - from the planning through to the resolution of detail.