Montrose is an existing high-country home entering its next chapter — a considered evolution centred around a new solarium and a long-term re-wilding strategy. The solarium will extend the living spaces into the landscape, creating a light-filled retreat that captures alpine views and winter sun while grounding the architecture in stone and timber continuity. Beyond the house, the wider vision is legacy planting: restoring shelter belts, introducing layered arboretum groupings, strengthening riparian edges and re-establishing native and seasonal species that will mature over generations. This is less about expansion and more about stewardship — allowing the land to regain depth, biodiversity and presence, so Montrose becomes not just a residence, but a living, evolving landscape for the future.