Errif is an evolving Earth sheltered family home in County Leitrim which encapsulates the walls of an old stone Cottage from the 19th Century, which itself slotted into the contours of a south facing Hillside above Glenade Lough. Approached and sensed in motion , the house is entered through a device lifted from Irelands grand tradition of passage tombs that conceal precious objects . Decending from the north through a ceremonial out - building and passing through the entrance slot, arrival is celebrated every day and surprise a given. Levels are played with in the section of the house, extending a playful nature to all the movement within the house. The boomerang form of the plan being developed to take full advantage of distant views to landscape and the Solar Arc that will take it off grid. Its a sculptural object in a private garden, within an electric green field pattern Tucked in behind drystone walls and hedges. In an area of National Scenic Beauty, it will hardly be seen and a full size stick frame of the house was erected to illustrate the sensitivity in placement to the local authority Planning department. The clients wish is for autonomy and self sufficiency through both active and passive solar gain and the generation of an associated landscape that both invited nature and allowed for production of fuel and food. The Cottage wing of the house provides a home working treatment studio to boost local economics and to gauge local complementary health requirements. The Material proposition allowed for use of Local timber to create the wooden skeleton, reuse of local stone and putting the landscape footprint taken - back on the roof. A zero energy and waste house that would sit effortlessly in its sensitive setting. The clients brief was for a zero toxicity living environment and a house that one day could fall back to nature or be fully recycled as they were doing in this timeous iteration of human inhabitation of this very particular place. The living wing of the house is articulated around an elaborated Stone Monks Cell - related to the town of Kells where the clients had lived since childhood and the repository of that Book from Iona, that was once kept there for safe keeping. The Cell acting as hearth, nook, library, heat store and place of evening repose. A futuristic house of western Ireland that defies the preponderance of the Bungalow that drops in everywhere - As Ted Culinnan once remarked the link to the landscape being so tenuous , that it seems that I an instant - you could with one finger - flick it off the face of the Earth " Where as this proposition is very much grounded in its location and culture. A reinhaitated landscape and place of repose offered on a Seasonal transhuman journey, taken for centuries from Dublin via Kells .. on the route to the Bay of Donegal and the waves of Bundoran.