Tumalo, Oregon · completed 2024

Tumalo
Overlook.

Tumalo Overlook at golden hour
3,860square feet
18months on site
65psf snow load
0.84acre site

A house that earns the horizon.

The clients asked for mountain drama without a “show house.” Our response is a quiet procession: compressed entry, warm inner rooms, then a great room that releases toward Broken Top.

The north side is deliberately solid against road noise and winter weather. On the south, high-performance glazing and calculated cedar overhangs harvest low winter sun while cutting July heat. Board-formed concrete anchors the home into the bench; walnut, wool, and blackened steel bring a tactile calm inside.

Plan logic · not to scale

Shelter, then reveal.

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A short palette.
Long life.

Board-formed concrete — thermal mass, fire resistance, and the grain of its timber formwork.

Western red cedar — factory-finished, rainscreen installed, protected by deep eaves.

Blackened steel — hot-wax finish, fabricated twelve miles from the site.