Hillside homes can be very tricky to design. You want to try to balance cut and fill, allowing the house to follow with the hillside rather than just carving out a flat pad and sticking a two-story house on it (definitely not site appropriate).
With our Murphy Way project, we started out with a series of trace paper sketches (now crumpled up and lost) by the Boss Man and then immediately went into Revit to push, pull, raise, lower, and rotate our volumes until we found the right location and elevation. Check out our iterations below.
VERSION 1: Straight from sketch to Revit. 
VERSION 2: What if we lower the levels? Nope. Too much cut along the back side. And where did our Garage go? 
VERSION 3: What if we rotate it a little bit… 
VERSION 4: What if we rotate it alot a bit… 
VERSION 5: What if we rotate it the other way. That might be better. We are still missing the Garage… 
VERSION 6: What if we shift it down the drive a little bit. That is looking better. 
VERSION 7: Lets carve out more of the volume to allow the spaces to allow the main level to have more access towards the view. 
VERSION 8: Let’s adjust the second level footprint to allow for more secondary bedroom space. I think this is just right.
After our siting and volumes were set, we ditched the masses and modeled the levels. There is still some remedial grading that we will need to look at by the garage, but the rest house seems to be working with the slope.
Now, for the fun part. Let’s see it in Enscape…
I cannot wait to start adding some materials and more landscaping to the model to really get a sense of it in the hill.