This single story home is located on a steep hillside in Highland Park.

The existing home is clad with a dark board and batten siding with a shade structure at the entry.

The house site atop the hillside and has no view to the south.

The addition is to the back of the existing home and will project over the slope. The access to the site is limited so the foundations were designed to allow for hand digging only, making the project feasable. This image shows the location of the new foundations for this ambitious project.

The structural steel, rebar, has been placed and next step in the placing of the concrete column formwork.

The concrete columns have been placed and the framing for the deck and the addition are underway.

This image shows the completed columns and addition above.

The new deck has been installed and allows for better use of the existing house and allows natural daylight thoughout the existing house.

The new addition is shown as a lightweight projection over the slope, in contrast to the existing, dark home which sits along the edge of the hillside.

The new bedroom and bathroom addition soars is suspended lightly over the hillside.

This is the new addition with large windows which allow for views and ample natural daylight form the south.

The new addition is light in color and floats over the hillside.

The new hallway features large bookcases.

The new bedroom allows for natural daylight and southern views.

The new bedroom has so much light, the window coverings are helpful.

The new bedroom is comfortable and bright with southern views of downtown Los Angeles.

This diagram shows the new addition bedroom, bathroom and deck shown in yellow and the existing single story home, shown in blue which sits along the edge of the slope.