At the far end of the back garden of this villa, which we renovated and enlarged for the same client in the past, we designed a garden house set among some mature pines. The wooden house and veranda float above the sloping terrain. As a result, there is space under it at the back for storing garden tools and wood. The house is a truss and timber frame construction. The metal roof has no gutters; rainwater drains into the ground to the water collection area at the back of the garden. Wooden slats shield the side wall window from field hockey balls coming from the adjacent artificial turf field. The house has an open floor plan with a kitchen, an enclosed bathroom and a window overlooking the woods to the rear.