Located adjacent to the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, this courtyard home with main and guest houses tied to a shared yard celebrates outdoor-indoor living with heroically scaled porches wrapping the home's edges uniting spaces of everyday use. The elevated central veranda has the dignity of a stage where family life surrounding it takes on the aura of a performance. The roof extends over this plinth - a raised wood deck - engaging an existing avocado tree located at the center of the property. This new home features a playful use of sloped ceilings using douglas fir as well as charred cedar timber finishes. Throughout, exposed wood structural elements including heavy posts and beams celebrate the honesty of the construction. In fact the horizontal beams stretching across the property establish a datum plane corresponding to the height of landscape walls, exterior material transitions and punched openings of glass. Construction is underway with expected completion late 2026