As a special refuge, hidden in and of the landscape, this house is among the trees. Several horizontal layers that establish a natural plateau precede the mass of the structure. The implication of eroded pillars of stone, exposed as outcropped structure, projected through the terra firma. The enclosing walls are weathering cedar siding balanced on and stretched between the massive stone piers. The roof, similar to a tent below canopy leaves above it, stands above the horizontal platform balanced on the stone piers, but not touched by them. The upper story is similar to bluffs scoured and worn allowing for windows carved into the house. Focused to the center of the crossing roofs is the masonry chimney pyre, as an outcropping to which the social centroid of the home is embraced.

Entry is made carefully, despite the numerous lookouts, into an unmarked cavern. Deceptions are the initiation, for erosion has opened way to the protected center. The chambers of the house radiate from the core, stretching and projecting from each direction. The horizontal flow of the interior space is towards the center. High and low volumes are cut away solids; dissipated spaces include the upper layers of the rooms.

The primary rooms open to the south, a sloping layer. The northern side has limited openings to a forest edge brought up to the structure. Deep overhangs limit the long horizontal light levels. The interior below is the cutting remains of a shallow cave. The flowing space is detailed to accentuate continuity, stratification, forming by erosion. Monolithic deceptions are suggested from retention of wall to ceiling material layers. And yet, above this illusion is the sloped tent, stretched above as in protection of the vertigo dream state.

Stemming from the chimney horizontal trim branches out to all layers, walls, and ceilings off the interior. Window casings, doorframes are woven into an introverted arbor. Divided, repeated, extended beyond view, trim encompasses verticals with horizontals into a varied visual unit throughout the home, a harmony in spatial variety. Now an organic product, romantic, picturesque, and reconstituted from within the landscape, the deception is toward a layered paradise.