This home was located within an established residential neighborhood in Browns Point, Washington.  The site had a large grade differential from one end to the other.  By strategically placing the new home high on the upper most part of the grade,  it provided a great overlook towards views towards the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.

 In order to preserve views, the neighborhood home owners association had a restrictive 10 feet high maximum building height on the uppermost portion of the site.   This resulted in the home having to provide concrete retaining walls on to lower the first floor plan to drop below this height restriction.

The home’s design concept was the idea of having two individual simple forms with shed roofs that would be connected by a bridging element. One house sybmpolically represented the social public spaces and the other house represented the private spaces. This bridging element provided both a separation and a connection between the two houses.  This reveal allowed for more natural light to penetrate the ceter of the home.  By creating a shallow social house that was narrow in width, it allowed the space to take advantage of natural cross ventilation and balanced day lighting.