Located on a steep hillside terminating at a ridgeline, the architecture is shaped by gravity, horizon, and a fixed height envelope. Rather than flattening the slope or dissolving the building into glass, the design anchors itself into the terrain and projects outward toward the sky-ridge, establishing a calibrated tension between mass and release. Concrete is not an aesthetic choice but the organizing principle—simultaneously structure, enclosure, and finish—allowing the building to remain legible as a singular architectural volume.
In Los Angeles, residential construction is dominated by lightweight framing systems optimized for speed, surface, and short life cycles. Building a monolithic concrete house within this economy required working against prevailing conventions at every scale, from engineering and permitting to fabrication and sequencing. The project refuses cosmetic translations of concrete and instead insists on material continuity and structural clarity, positioning difficulty itself as architectural context.
Despite its scale, the house resists fragmentation. Program is absorbed into the thickness of the concrete rather than distributed across wings or stylistic elements. Primary living volumes are oriented toward horizon and light, while more introspective spaces are embedded deep within the mass, benefiting from enclosure, acoustic isolation, and compression. Movement through the house is conceived as a sequence of spatial contractions and releases, revealing structure and proportion through circulation rather than ornament.
This discipline extends to the smallest scale. Select interior volumes are resolved as monolithic material assemblies, where stone is treated not as finish but as architecture—carved, folded, and bookmatched to form planes, closures, and integrated elements. Fixtures, drainage, and hardware are concealed within geometry, allowing spaces to read as constructed voids rather than decorated rooms.
Removed from this slope, this ridgeline, or this construction culture, the architecture would lose its logic. Here, it is inevitable.