On paper, the idea of building a huge cement house in the middle of an ancient oak forest predicts a disaster.

But Walter Workshop did an excellent job projecting Oak Park House for a client in Beverly Hills, California.

The house sits on the edge of a canyon, hence these impressive views.

Oak Pass house has been designed inversely from the usual layout with public spaces on top of the bedrooms, embedded into the hillside beneath a green roof of edible herbs. The house occupies 740 m2, but the visual effect of it being carefully integrated in the oak wood landscape makes it seem smaller. The infinity pool divides the house and flows under one of the largest oaks on the property.

Content based on the work of the architect Walter Workshop