In his gouache plan for the Burton Tremaine Beach House, interlocking amoebic shapes curve sinuously, filling the landscape with an abstract rhythmic design. Whimsical and somewhat reminiscent of Surrealist compositional forms, they evoke the work of Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, and Joan Miró. An aspect of Burle Marx's gardens that cannot appear in the plan is their sculptural, three-dimensional quality; the flowerbeds that appear in this drawing might typically have been elevated and tiered.