This private home literally manifests the duality of living on this site: The desire for transparency and an unencumbered engagement with the landscape vs the desire for privacy and reclusion. Rather than resolving this duality in a single object/condition, our solution allows these conditions to exist in a tangential relationship. The public outward facing areas of the house are contained within a glass volume that floats lightly across the landscape. The private inward facing areas of the house are protected by a heavy volume of locally sourced stone embedded in the landscape.