This one family 2,800 square foot house is located on an irregular small lot in Palo Alto California. A diagonal easement by the City at the front of the site required an angled setback. The challenge of the zoning restriction and design considerations inspired the building's shape, a composition of rectangles with asymmetrically arranged glass and steel window bay.  The exterior materials are zinc and stucco with exposed structural steel elements. It is a spare, industrial aesthetic with functional elements conspicuously and intentionally displayed.

The interior spaces, surfaces, and materials provide continuity with the exterior. The stucco surface color and texture penetrates from the exterior to the interior encompassing the surfaces around the three-story central circulation core.  Exposed bar joists, similar to the exposed steel members on the exterior, are standard commercial structural elements.  They are detailed and painted to fit comfortably in a residential context while providing the most minimal roof supports, spanning the single volume of living, dining and kitchen. A cantilevered stair connects each level, projecting from its exposed steel channel support, which is bolted to the stucco-surfaced wall, a dynamic structural expression.

Silver/grey slate floors with textured cedar walls and ceiling surfaces and grey stained anigre wood surfaced kitchen cabinets become a neutral background, contrasted with stainless steel reveals and kitchen equipment and the colorful furniture, countertops and art work.

OZ House enhances the diversity of housing structures in its neighborhood.