The project seeks to bring 20 new family homes to a difficult but beautiful site in Delgany, Co Wicklow. The site comes with challenges; an existing structure to be retained, protected trees dividing the site, and a dramatic change in topography. The strategy is to partition the houses in respect of a natural division line the trees have already made on the site. The scheme takes the form of two terraces, one to the north of the tree line, the other to the south. In response to these different conditions we have designed two different house types to match. The scheme also sees the restoration of a period house fronting onto Killincarrig.