This unusually long and narrow property, on Chicago’s North Shore, was surrounded by five close-at-hand neighbors arranged on an irregular street pattern, and challenged architect Booth Hansen and our studio to secure the new residence’s privacy. Our response employed landscape as art: sweeping gestures, expressed in low, curving stone walls, and a naturalized Midwestern plant palette, attract and direct the eye. Relationships between interior and exterior spaces were carefully organized in collaboration with the architect, offering greater visual discretion to the exposed site.