The brief was to extend the existing family home to create more living space and address a neglected 1970’s swimming pool. The design response was to keep the existing residence as is and create a new building addition perpendicular to the existing, a glass bridge connects the two buildings and forms the new formal entrance into the residence. The new addition forms an L shape series of buildings which shelters the northern swimming pool enclosure from the southerly winds while also creating a public area for vehicles to the south. Given the landscape setting, careful spatial planning was required to ensure the new addition complimented the nearby native gum trees. This ultimately drove the size and proportion of the new addition resulting in a single width series of open planned spaces. Despite this limitation this allowed us to conceal all services and amenity spaces in the centre of the building. The final result is a freestanding box element clad in recycled rough sawn Australian messmate timber set on top of exposed aggregate concrete polished flooring. This formed the basis of the material palette which also comprises in-situ concrete elements as seen in the smooth trowelled island bench and fireplace hearth.