Poka House

The plan is symmetrical about the entrance, and the elevation is composed the same way: two plain white wings, and between them a fluted panel and a timber-faced bay that together mark the way in. The first floor projects over the parking as a flat tray, which shades the cars and gives the upper rooms a covered terrace on top of it. Warm light is recessed into the underside of that tray rather than into the ceiling of the undercroft, so the approach is lit by a line rather than by fittings.