If you have the opportunity to build your dream house with views of Sydney Harbour, you are extremely lucky.

A site at Kutti Beach in Vaucluse gave the owners the opportunity to realize their dream with views across Sydney Harbour to Middle Head and direct access to the Sydney Harbour foreshore.

They selected Sydney-based architect Matthew Woodward and his team of Patrick Maitland, Nicholas Papas and John Deuchrass for the project.
They wanted a functional and technologically advanced home for their young family that includes the parents plus one daughter and two sons.
But they also wanted a home that not only meets their daily needs but also functions as a place for relaxation, rest and entertainment while taking full advantage of the views, the site and the lush nature around it.
In addition, they wanted to future-proof their home to the extent possible. Matthew Woodward tells The Cool Hunter more about this: ?The clients required a house that was ?future proof? in respect to allowing flexibility in spatial organisation, facilitating potential advances in electrical and audio visual technologies, solar improvements etc.?
Woodward also says that this was not easy. ?This was incredibly challenging given the nature of the build being exposed off form concrete construction, and containing large spans of glazing. You only have one chance to run services and cast them in place! Extra conduits were installed, redundancy in power capacity facilitated, and zones structu...