The core of the house was sound and well-loved but provided few views to a puiblic park to the east. An upper floor turns the house around with a master bedroom suite upstairs and a covered entertaining space extending from the dining area below. The cross section allows for hot western sun to animate adouble height space through which the stair winds.

A prime requirement was that the extension should not look "dropped on top", so the roof over the entry was extended up to the upper floor. This not only creates a rising, twisting space that draws visitors into the family centre of the house but gives it the look of a samurai helmet.