架构师提供的文本描述。这座3300 SF住宅位于一个不规则的、倾斜的城市地段，可以俯瞰华盛顿湖，从对角线俯瞰向东北和东南方向的喀斯喀特山脉。

Text description provided by the architects. The 3300 SF residence occupies an irregularly shaped, sloping urban lot overlooking Lake Washington with diagonal views of the Cascade Mountain Range to the Northeast and Southeast.

该项目包括开放的生活/用餐/厨房空间、主卧室和书房、儿童卧室和浴室、车库和储藏室。客户还要求一个半独立的客房和一个覆盖的室外居住空间，不会阻挡自然光到房子的主楼层。

The program includes an open living/dining/kitchen space, master bedroom and study, children’s bedrooms and bath and garage and pantry space. The client also requested a semi-detached guest quarters and a covered, outdoor living space that would not block natural light to the main floor of the house.

房子的反应是通过一个坚实和开放的角落的发挥和规模从街道到后院的转变。它由三个部分组成：一个现浇混凝土车库，三层主楼和单层半独立客房。

The house responds to its site through a play of solid and open corners and a transformation of scale from the street to the rear yard. It is comprised of three parts - a cast-in-place concrete garage, the three-story block of the main house and the single-story, semi-detached guest quarters.

车库把房子锚定在工地的西北角，而半独立的客人宿舍则坐落在上面，悬挑而出，形成通往入口的有盖的步行。主块占据场地的相对角。它的东南角已经被完全移除，取而代之的是一个30英尺高的钢管支架，支撑着上面的遮挡屋顶。一个钢和木框架甲板字面上悬挂从托架1“直径钢棒。主层和上层通向14英尺宽的两层空间。

The garage anchors the house to the northwest corner of the site while the semi-detached guest quarters is perched above, cantilevering out to create a covered walk to the entry. The main block occupies the opposing corner of the site. Its southeast corner has been entirely removed and replaced with a thirty-foot tall tube steel bracket that supports the sheltering roof above. A steel and wood framed deck is literally suspended from the bracket by a 1” diameter steel rod. The main and upper levels open to the resulting two-story space with 14 foot wide lift & glide glass doors allowing the house to spatially expand and contract in response to the seasons.

该地段的西南角形成一个花园，毗邻入口步道。面对这个花园的房子的角落也是玻璃的，包含一个开放的提升管钢楼梯，在里面漂浮，提供了当你上升和下降时穿过花园的感觉。进入花园和规模适中的车库和探险区是对街道规模的适当反应，与“树中”的空间形成了鲜明的对比。

The southwest corner of the lot forms a garden adjacent to the entry walk. The corner of the house facing this garden is also glazed and contains an open riser steel stair that ‘floats’ within it, providing the sense of passing through the garden as one ascends and descends. The entry garden and modest scale of the garage and quest quarters are an appropriate response to the scale of the street and in dramatic contrast to the spaces beyond where one lives “in the trees”.