Willard House
Making the building compatible with the extraordinary setting and providing for the owners requirements was the major task to be accomplished. The interior solution was to locate the living area on the upper entrance level (with dining room facing night lights of the city far below) and to locate the bedrooms below (well protected from violent winds that can cause sleepless nights).
Outside, the scale problem, the desire of not disturbing natural vegetation, and the need for a long flat sidewalk for the kids to ride their tricycles resolved itself into this final form.
The building is located on the site such as to graphically show the slope of the site along the front wall. This wall provides for a needed play sidewalk (little flat area on site which continually slopes 23 degrees) and culminates at its greatest point at the center of interest of the building. It is thus used as an extra-building device to integrate the building into its site. The desire to preserve natural vegetation required careful placing of the building. In addition, the character of the form itself is integral with the interior and is a response to the surrounding mountains and vegetation.
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