The Tree Top Residence celebrates the site’s complex
landscape, merging with it seamlessly and emerging from it
atop the canopy of trees that surround it. Built along a
natural ridgeline, the long and narrow plan of the three-
story house mimics and inverts the angles of the site’s
topography, creating dynamic vertical and horizontal
relationships.
Vertically, an eccentrically-helical stair functions as a
primary organizing element and a sculptural gesture upon
entry into the house. Horizontally, walls are used sparingly
in favor of fluidly connected spaces: between rooms and to
blend the interior with the outside. The design culminates in
the master bedroom, which features full-height sliding doors
at its cantilevered corner. The orchestration of this view,
overlooking a dense canopy of trees, embodies the intent to
offer respite from the city below.