This 5,100 sq. ft. residence is organized around a majestic Blue Oak tree, which occupies the only flat portion of this one-acre site. With dramatic views of Windy Hill to the southwest, the house is designed to respond directly to the surrounding natural features. While breaking down the building’s overall massing, the various components of the house - garage, main house, master wing and guest house at the rear - form edges of a formal courtyard anchored by the Blue Oak. The spaces of the main house simultaneously look inward to the quiet tree and canopied courtyard, and outward to the dramatic distant views. Tucked into the site’s hillside and locked into the landscape by the great room’s loggia and terrace wall, the house conceals its story scale and allows for a poolside setting to be elegantly carved into the cascading terrain, shielded from neighbors' views and the building approach.