Our new issue arrives on Tuesday. In anticipation, we’re revisiting a few of our favorite homes from past September/October issues, like this concrete guesthouse by levenbetts. For the owners, the home was about designing a vestige 500 years into the future and working backward to a functional home. Several years of dialogue—steered by that idea of design from the future—led to a quietly monolithic concrete box set in a contemplative landscape of rocks and moss. The connection to the outdoors is one of the home’s most astounding characteristics. Although it reads as a single story, the floor level rises and lowers with the site’s topography, intentionally altering your perspective as you progress through the house. “When you’re in the sunken living room, you’re lower than the ground plane and you see nature at a very different scale,” says Stella Betts, cofounder of Levenbetts. “It’s an idea of porosity, or being out in nature and then entering every room in the house from wherever.” S...