3. The Architect envisioned a house with the “ primal quality of a single room” that captured within it as much daylight as possible. The Alves Residence is an abstraction by architects Thomas Hanranhan & Victoria Meyers of a single vessel into a house, in other words, the design of the house as a single modulated volume excavated by light. The 1900 sq. Ft. House sits on a triangular shelf of flat land on a steeply sloping hillside facing south and east. The structure is an elongated volume to match the site and is entered from a south terrace cut through deep trees on the south end. The architects designed the living room so that it appears to grow naturally out of the ground. The house fulfills the aspirations of the architects as a place to contemplate the cycles of nature, as “ a retreat in nature allows the silence of the forest to enter into the domestic realm”.