"Stuttgart’s historic centre is situated in a valley, bound on three sides by luxuriant hills, a circumstance which may explain why a house on a slope with a spectacular view, just outside the centre, is not considered out of the ordinary here. But in this case erecting a residence for a family of four on a site ten metres wide and one hundred metres long was a feat. After all, this is a former allotment garden parcel; at its lower edge, the permitted building footprint was originally only three metres wide. Following lengthy negotiations with the local building authorities, the allowable footprint width was increased, in alignment with neighbouring houses, to five metres. The result is a monolithic concrete structure – wrapped in varying widths of rough-sawn Douglas fir cladding – which is, in fact, the physical manifestation of the largest permissible volume."