Ridge House is a modernist single-family three-story home located in Portland, Oregon, designed in 2016 by Leckie Studio Architecture + Design.

Description
Ridge House is a single-family home situated along the crest of a topographic ridge in Alameda, Portland. With its compact footprint and crystalline form, the architecture is shaped as a response to the dramatic topography of the site, as well as opportunities for views connecting the elements that define the site.
Project Details
Ridge House is a detached modernist single-family three storey home situated in Portland?s Alameda neighborhood on a site with dramatic views of the city?s southwest hills and striking city line. The house is perched at the crest of a hill, with the street sloping away laterally to the west; the site also falls away substantially from the street to the rear property line ? providing exceptional picturesque vistas. The clients, Cara and Jen are a female couple with two kids – a 6-yearold son and 12-year-old daughter. When they originally purchased the property, they had intended to build a modernist renovation and addition to the existing house. The design team worked for over a year to explore ways to adapt the existing structure, which was originally built in 1918 and was suffering from a failing foundation. Upon determination that entirely new foundation work was the only viable way forward, the design team worked creatively to design a smaller modernist house that wor...