The brief for this project was simply to bring the nature from outside - in, in order to do the spectacular garden justice. One of the key design generators for the new patio and facade was to use very free-flowing organic shapes and lines, which mimicked a series of rock pools, streams and koi ponds which flow around the perimeter of the property. Another design consideration was to create a “tree canopy” for the new patio in order to create a natural transitional space between outside and inside. This was achieved by closing in the “organic slab” with full height stacking doors which help expose different sized round skylights as the voids in the canopy and the angled steel structural posts as the trees supporting the canopy. Up lighters placed on the floor between the posts, down lighters scattered erratically throughout the slab soffit and a living garden above the slab help reinforce this concept.