Gradient transforms a postwar house in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland into a timely and sophisticated live work campus. United by a shared roof and material palette, the house and studio frame a shared courtyard that overlooks the iconic St. Johns Bridge, the Willamette River, and West Hills. Home to a young family with a thriving design business, the Gradient House provides a true live/work balance, with strong connections to neighbors and the landscape, following the natural topography of the site. Though the new house and studio more than double the size of the original house, the scale of the surrounding neighborhood is maintained with façades that are austere but warm, and a system of cedar siding.