Making use exclusively of indigenous species, the garden is designed as if the house were a part of the landscape-a series of topographic features. The retaining walls are made from the stone excavated  from the site. The front garden reinstates the fynbos indigenous to the area. The house is placed into rather than onto the landscape.Indigenous planting treats the architecture as topography, restio on the roof echo those on sandstone outcroppings where runoff is retained and shallow and moist soil. The terrace garden frames and mirrors the distant division  of the view into landscape and seascape. The swimming pool lining is grey to ensure a match with the ocean. This formal and artificial landscape screens out the middle ground, placing the house in direct contact with the vista, collapsing distance a landscape both real and represented.
 A series of small ponds bring cool and the sound of running water into the house,. The main bathroom opens out into a private court with nymphea in  the pond and a shower in a rocky grotto.Where the front of the house frames the landscape, the rear of the house is in intimate contact with the earth. The slope of the mountain spills right onto the roof terrace. The indigenous garden merges seamlessly with the natural vegetation of the nature reserve beyond. The form of the roof echoes the kloof beyond. Eventually this too will be colonised by plants, will become part of the topography.