The building was framed in Douglas fir and clad in sheets of corrugated galvanized steel and exposed plywood. The steel roof, following the slope of the hillside, tilts steeeply from a thirty-foot height at one corner to ten feet on the diagonal corner. A twenty by twenty foot central skylight and carefully positioned windows frame views of the sky, ocean, and surrounding hillsides. Two poured-concrete terraces bracket the house on opposite sides. The siting is such that the building is always approached obliquely.