Situated at the transition from basalt canyon to broad rolling ridge, the shelter creates a bridge between these two distinct features of the landscape. By inhabiting the edge of each of these territories the shelter is not consumed by either. It can comfortably live at the edge for it is the exact point where scales begin to change. It can be the change. It is precisely here, at the edge, that the inhabitants are able to occupy the space of the canyon while simultaneously experiencing the broad openness of the ridge.