If brevity is the soul of wit, then this little beach house is bound to put a smile on the stoniest of faces. Putatively sustainable elements such as the ‘sleds’ on which it sits and the wheel that offers a manual option for winching up the shutter on the beachside façade may be more gestural than functional, but in a way the building’s conceits only add to its delights. Whimsical in its verticality and Lilliputian in its spatial allocation, the building is a jeu d’esprit that must immediately relax its occupants into holiday mode.