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Teddy, an Australian Labradoodle, sits at the landing of the sleeping loft (left), which is located above the master suite. - Rockport, Massachusetts Dwell Magazine : November / December 2017

A perforated metal screen acts as a guardrail for the interior stair while introducing another layer of light filtration.

The living room sits at the rear of the house, connected to the garden. "Even though it's a very small house, we wanted the living room to be very generous," says the couple. "This room is the life of the house."

"We work with the human body and mind in the center, and around it we build on the site and the cultural heritage of the environment around it," explains Sundberg of his approach to design. "This is more important than any kind of abstract constructs. Architecture is about emotional belonging, about the functions of the body and the mind, about what kind of social and emotional space we want our clients to be set into. This project is about these themes."

The all-glass rear facade emphatically connects the home to its site.