Alluvial fan

Layers of meaning; layers of space. 

Shown here Entry to the Smith Houseis the entry to the Smith House, completed in 2009. The other Smith House, designed  by Richard Meier in 1965, was a 2 story homage to mankind's "shifting outlook". That house explored spatial layering as an abstract response to its site overlooking the endless horizon of Long Island Sound.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Smith_House.html

This Smith House applies strategies from its namesake in a different context, surfing the crest of an alluvial fan as it pours down from the Rockies to fill the basin below (think geological time here). Spatial layering resists this percieved movement, and also separates the public spaces from private ones. Delayed discovery, be it of an ocean or a monumental basin and range landscape, offers a moment of the sublime in each context.