Hillside House
Houses built on sloping sites, covering how architects respond to terrain, structure, and views through stepped plans, roofs, and courtyards.
A hillside house is a residence sited on a sloping lot, where the grade itself shapes the plan, structure, and access. Architects working on these sites typically stepping floors down the slope, use retaining walls or cantilevers, and place rooms to capture views and daylight. The terrain tends to set the organisational logic more than a conventional flat-lot layout would.Members here share projects that split a house into separate volumes, fold or plant roofs over the landscape, and thread courtyards through single-storey plans. Work ranges from Brazilian and Californian examples to a concrete and oak house in Slovenia, showing how the same site conditions produce different spatial and material answers.
