The Echo Park House is a new 3-bedroom 2-bath house on a lush 1/2-acre urban lot. The design revisits the logic and intimacy of the California ranch house. Entrance is across a bridge and outdoor deck into a living room suspended in the trees; stairs then move one down through the house clockwise and into the hill. This layout maximizes a connection to the outdoors, which is treated like a series of accompanying rooms.

Scheduled completion: August 2008.