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A series of “stacked boxes” laid the foundation for this Sea Ranch–inspired home on a narrow site set on two flood zones and filled with protected redwoods.

The Perch at sunset.

The dwelling is located on the hill’s brow, so it nestles into the slope just below a prominent cluster of quaking aspens where a resident bull moose lives. “The lot is located in a sea of grass-covered hills,” says architect Hunter Gundersen. “Unlike much of the Rocky Mountains it isn’t a craggy landscape full of cliffs, ravines, and broken rock faces. Instead, it’s soft and rolling, like grassy ocean swells with an occasional rock-outcropping ship or tree-stand island. Like the outcroppings, the structure is low lying, dark, and embedded into the grass and sage—at home on the soft surface, but not apologetic nor blending in.”

The new, stepped decks run the length of the house, visually and physically connecting both sides of the building.

The front of the home shows how the roof was lifted to maximize the views.

RIC Design Build paid homage to the midcentury era and architect Alan McCullough’s legacy while making the house work for today.

New wood cladding, dyed black, was fit to the house's original frame.