The site for the house, a curving slope with a western exposure, provided a fair challenge for a house with a large program, but also opened the door for a design with dynamic sectional interest. A large stone wall cuts across the slope through the middle of the house to organize the house’s circulation, and provides a strong material texture to the interior spaces. Generous porches to the west moderate a harsh solar exposure, and blur the line between interior and exterior spaces. The landscape design also extends the presence of the house outward, to complete a balanced composition between the wild natural landscape and the highly articulated house. Materials for the house include horizontally banded cream and grey Leuder limestone walls, Douglas Fir windows, doors, and paneling, blue Leuder limeststone and Ipe wood floors, integral-color stucco, paint-grip standing seam roof, and exposed steel.