[abstracts]
"This project is a model for how to construct a building in a sensitive environment in the least intrusive yet responsive way. They are to be commended for the lengths they have gone through to preserve the dramatic qualities of the site and for designing a building that comes out of the land.
"I believe this house (the only house to win an award, surprisingly) was one of the strongest projects of the bunch.The way in which the aqueduct/lap pool is used as an intermediary design element to “splint” the house together with the landscape is remarkable for its unexpected urbanity/density of the massing, rather than its extension, as we saw in most of the houses we looked at."