For Nicolas Schuybroek, the design challenge was to maximise the size of the house and provide a multi-generation family holiday home for the owner's mother and their children. The Knokke area is known for its conservatism when it comes to urbanism and the shapes, materials and volumes of new building projects. The rules of the area made it difficult for the project to achieve a contemporary style in the building.

The design team found a solution inspired by the oversized thatch roof, which could have been experienced in Belgium in the 1990s and is still used in Scandinavia and Northern Europe today. The house is a contemporary interpretation, it is an abstract family holiday cabin.

Nicolas Schuybroek's design team sought to enhance the house's dimension, providing a sense of privacy while integrating the house with the surrounding landscape, creating a subtle twist. They designed a house that needed to look like a unit, but it could also have rooms that could double and operate separately from the other rooms to meet the needs of the three different generations that use the house, while giving it a distinctive style.