Weija Terraces

The section is set up so that every floor plate is a little smaller than the one under it. The setback produces a private terrace on each level at no cost in envelope, and the stepping breaks a five-storey block into pieces at a scale the street can follow. Terracotta bands mark the slab lines against white render, and the top of the building is given to a pool and a timber pergola rather than to a plant room, which is the payoff for having pushed the services down into the base.