The Princeton House sits in a long thin 3-acre site, a former White Pine tree farm, 10 minutes from Princeton University. The site is punctuated by the 100 foot tall trees in a grid that consistently runs north-south across the site covering the first 2/3 of the site. At the rear of the site, hardwoods constitute the forest as the lot abuts a nature preserve. The house is sited in the hardwoods and is organized around a central garden courtyard.

The house is simple in its design concept and its sustainable strategy. It uses basic, tried and true ideas of passive solar heating, cross ventilation for cooling and a highly calibrated choreography of window placement to create connection to the outdoors. The windows are located in relation to views out towards the landscape. In addition, these windows, along with the open courtyard, allow for cross ventilation to occur throughout the house. The exterior is clad in a vertically oriented corrugated metal siding that plays the material of the house off against the vibrant colors of the surrounding forests and the external and courtyard garden.