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Breuer and Tician Papachristou based their first design for the Soriano House on the plans for the unbuilt Ustinov House, which featured a striking hyberbolic parabaloid roof profile. The construction of this concrete design proved too expensive and the firm scaled back their design, substituting wood and stone for reinforced concrete and a more traditional butterfly roof for the hyberbolic parabaloid of the original design. Each façade combined fieldstone walls and extensive glazing. Fieldstone retaining walls bordered outdoor spaces and extended into the landscape. The design harkened back to the binuclear designs of the 1940s and 1950s with two rectangular volumes connected by a thin entry hallway. The eastern volume floor contained a kitchen, dining room and large living area on the main floor with bedrooms surrounding a multi-purpose room and bathrooms on the level below. The western volume contained a library, guest room and bedroom on the main floor above a garage, storage rooms, a utility room, dark room and wine cellar. The house was eventually destroyed.