Igor Polevitzky’s Birdcage House on Biscayne Island was a radical experiment in outdoor living. It is the clearest example of his concept of the house as a volume of screened space, rather than solid mass. The split-level design consists of a series of floating concrete decks, with openness to each other and the outdoors. The screened cage encloses a pool and tree, while the exterior landscaping features a lagoon and sandy beach. In its entirety, the house is a utopian indoor-outdoor environment, an ideal famously explored by Buckminster Fuller in his Skybreak House.

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