Branch Studio Architects uses skylights to bring light into Australian island house

A courtyard with a concrete pool sits at the centre of a house on Phillip Island in Australia, designed by Branch Studio Architects and illuminated by large skylights.
The site of the home, called Casa X, sits only a short distance from the beach and sea, views of which are blocked a tall run of trees.Other homes next door have an open relationship to their sites without walls or fences, and the residents wanted to balance this with a greater sense of privacy.
This was achieved through the use o