By creating a variety of spatial experiences in this house, the dining room is only seven feet high, while the living room extends to the full eighteen foot height of the house, a wide range of freedom is given the family within an ordered discipline, establishing gathering and private spaces. The system of projecting wings zones different activities within a compacted plan.

The first architectural commission for the architect upon graduation from architectural school, the house pays homage to the ideas of Mies and Kahn in its attempt to create hierarchy of use, geometry of structure and plan, use of natural light, and attention to details.

The house's four "U" shaped wings are arranged in pinwheel fashion to create discreet views and outdoor zones. They open to a garden and terrace off the living room and dining room, a sunken garden off the west wing, and balconies off the bedrooms. They provide the living spaces, while the interstices include kitchen, bathroom, laundry and circulation space, which widen into a gallery on the lower level and a family sitting room on the upper level.

The house rests on a sloping site. Its levels are connected by a staircase built around a skylighted open space. The roof is raised on support posts to create surrounding bands of clerestory windows.