A new design for a family in Topanga, California. The IDEA is a cantilevered living space (both floor and its' ceiling) back toward the hill side, thus freeing up structure to take in Nature and to answer the Building regulation of non invasive encroachment into the driplines of the native Oak Trees. Otherwise and unbuildable site....thanks to the STATE. But here Form Follows Function and not Fill up a random Form with Functions! This is Architecture, it is not a shopping bag.