The studio's first house, Architecture AND completed a house set high above the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney.

A series of masonry blades are placed on a site, deflected in response to the bloodwood trees that are distributed across the site. A long retaining wall stretches between house and studio to define an upper lawn, sensoring out the middle-ground to foreground the distant valley. In addition to their spatial function, the walls served to shield glazed surfaces from the radiant heat of possible bushfires.