Set at the forest's edge in Cannon Beach, Oregon, Modern Hemlock is a Pacific Northwest contemporary residence that turns its wooded site into a compositional strategy. A precise, flat-roofed volume clad in warm-toned stucco, cedar, and dark-framed aluminum glazing, it neither fights the surrounding hemlock and Sitka spruce nor disappears into them — it belongs. The defining move is vertical: two floors of calm, light-filled living open onto a fully programmed roof deck — a planted outdoor room with views across the hemlock canopy to the Pacific beyond. A covered patio and second-floor balcony extend the living spaces outward, so the home's outdoor program rivals its interior in square footage. Inside, three main-floor bedrooms give way to an open upper level where living, dining, and kitchen flow together beneath nine-foot ceilings. Every material is earned: the flat roof enables the deck, the scored stucco creates shadow, the cedar portal echoes the forest. Modern Hemlock is a house for a family that lives outdoors as deliberately as indoors — difficult to improve, and easy to inhabit.