Distilling a design to its simplest strokes is often much more difficult than working with grandiosity and flair. This E-shaped house uses very few architectural moves and materials, yet it encapsulates a multitude of spatial experiences and large ideas. The alpine tramping hut; the Southern vernacular; a modernised villa roofline; John Scott, Claude Megson and plenty of Ralph Hotere; they all collide to create something entirely unique and all together of this land.