Stoddard Residence

A footbridge spans the sloping approach to this house situated on a small hillside lot. With views to the city and an adjacent nature preserve, the bridge is on axis with the cantilevered ‘projection’ of a two-story library and ultimately wraps into the entry ‘cut’ at the main level of the structure.

The structure is a mezzanine volume with a series of articulated voids: entry, guest room patio, game room deck - and a series of solid, cantilevered projections: library, stairs, kitchen, living room deck, master bedroom patio, mezzanine deck and, most visually significant, the structure’s asymmetrical roof. The strategy of layering solid and void elements allows for directed views, solar control and complexity of interior/exterior spaces within a simple volume. As the slope breaks steeply to the South, the conventional stem wall foundation is trabeated into columns, allowing an undisturbed ground plane to pass below.