THIS SETS UP TWO KEY PLANING STRATEGIES 1من اصل2

Firstly, a central courtyard is introduced as the principal organizing element
for the planning with all of the house’s key public spaces – living room,
dining room, kitchen, study and pool – grouped around the courtyard to
connect these spaces visually and physically when the courtyard walls are
opened up. The arrangement promotes a socially inclusive dynamic as well
as extending the spatial opportunities of the house. The courtyard also has a
significant environmental role bringing sun, light and air into The   centre of
the house.
Secondly, the planning is composed to deliberately isolate the occupant
from the suburban surrounds to heighten the sense of oasis and privateness.
This process begins at the street bringing visitors through a succession of
exterior spaces that gradually compress and remove the street context
through a composition of fences, full height screens and thresholds. The
entry sequence eventually terminates at a solid doorway where the sense of
intrigue peaks. Rather than entering into a hallway, one arrives in the
courtyard where the full extent of the private domain, the lagoon and island
are revealed and any sense of the outside world removed.
The house also has an unusual sectional arrangement driven partly by the
requirement to elevate the interior 1.2 m above ground level to safeguard
against flooding but also by the desire to have open plan spaces with dual
aspect – north for sun and south for the view. Whilst this introduces issues
with the scale relationship of the house to its neighbors, it enables.
a more interesting multi-level relationship between interior and exterior
living spaces to occur. This combination of sectional interplay with the
layout of spaces in relation to the courtyard is what enables the layering of
spaces to occur –