Treehouse is a single family residence located on a park in Seattle, WA. Built on an inaccessible, steep slope lot, the project overcame significant design and construction challenges to create a unique home elevated in the trees.

The building’s exterior both camouflages and accentuates the building within its surrounding. The steel structure of the carport, driveway and house will be painted orange while the building itself is clad in multi-colored asphalt roll roofing referencing the gray/green bark of the surrounding trees. The skylight gestures up from the building and is clad in galvanized metal. These materials were chosen for affordability / durability, their lack of finishing requirements and their material connection to treehouses and outbuildings, as well as their expressive potential to evoke tree bark.