This project consists of two neighbouring buildings located in a tiny community and occupying the site of an earlier house. Unexpectedly, the two structures employ quite different languages to express their purposes. The house is a two-storey volume reflective in some ways of its predecessor. Configured to accommodate large parties, it is generous and open and, while clearly a building of its time, acknowledges a number of traditional models for beach housing. The sleep-out, by contrast, is a remarkably brave, hard-edged concrete structure clearly engaged with the future rather than the past. A tough-minded building, it is designed and detailed with considerable skill to provide the occupants with an emphatic series of architectural propositions which, although unexpected, are extremely satisfying.