Horizontally stratified over a gentle slope, this 4,000 square foot house is an architectural correlative to natural forms. Platforms, masonry piers and roof canopy extend natural features in geometry of frames, ledges and centrifugal flow.

The original home was doubles in size from its 1950 footprint. From the suggestions of the original Prairie School design, this style of a traditional American expression was extended throughout by simple means. A lacing of wood banding and volumetric interplay combine the new and old in to now. A manneristic hand has consciously allowed the smallest details to become inseparably decorative.

Interior expressions are developed simultaneously with exterior treatment and allude to construction. Spatial variety is manipulated, but by use of a consistent material palette, a comfortable unity is present.