Below the roof, the pavillion’s geometry rotates to respond to the land. Suspended sliding doors transform the dining area into an open stage over the water, while a fireplace-adjacent built-in daybed hovers over the treetops and landing below.

Through the center of the hearth, a concrete stair winds it way down,

…first to a landing for washing and changing, and then to the inner sanctum of the spa.

Still further down, below the sundeck ‘beach’ and against a length of a concrete wall that retains the pool, the gym opens to a woodland landscape as its outer edge bends to acknowledge the Guest House.

At the far end, a light shaft penetrates from sundeck above, and a concrete canopy rises to mark the linkage to the guest house and reconnection to the landscape above.

At once building and landform, the pool and pool house replace the grounded predictability of the everyday with a visceral otherness that is encountered in some of the most elemental forms of shelter; and reset our relationship to gravity at every turn.