This six-bedroom villa on the beach in Saint Barthelemy was designed to reflect the tradition of single-story buildings with hipped rooflines that predominate on this Caribbean island. The villa is composed of five pavilions clustered around a sand-filled courtyard that extends in from the beach. Each of the pavilions is unique; the four smaller pavilions each house a spacious bedroom suite that varies in configuration from each of the others, providing spatial variety and surprise. The large central pavilion houses two additional bedroom suites on a mezzanine level and open loft-like public rooms on the main level below. Continuous diagonal hip beams splice clusters of the pyramidal roofs together, creating spaces that undulate over the continuous floor plans below.