This custom home digs into the descending canyon slope and is an balance in structural moderation and spatial excess. The pie-shaped lot dictates a terraced and constrained volume from which exterior recreational space is re-captured through the building form. This programmatic “surprise” is revealed only after one passes into the home, whose sunken entry takes its scalar cue from the surrounding low-density residential duplexes and single family residences. The massing that results from the steep slope, produces a sliding set of volumes which allow for larger than normal floor-to-ceiling heights, constructing a “deep section” in the middle level of the home, providing mechanical space, and well as dynamic formal shifts which spatially tie together the terraced interior programs of the residence.