Created site-specific to its sloped, triangular land, the Winged House is a unique arrangement of two trapezoidal volumes—two wings aligned along the property boundaries, set on site in a splay to embrace a central garden and a trio of prized native palms.

The roof design draws on precedents seen in Malay houses, but are here modulated in being raised from the rest of the house, split, pulled apart and re-pitched so one is lifted over the other, creating a slot opening to admit air and light—the tropical intensity of the latter tempered by the honeyed tones of Burmese teak into a quality of radiance.