The primary design challenges were to reconsider the building structures and allow shared use by an extended family while maintaining varying levels of privacy and increase the amount of filtered daylight available throughout the main house and apartment. The main house had to remain within its original zoning envelope at the rear of the site. An 8-foot addition on the courtyard increased the building in size to 1,700 sqf and allowed for a complete reorganization of the interior spaces. Living spaces increased to a total of three bedrooms and three baths. The roof of a dank rear room was removed and an outdoor dining courtyard that opens to the kitchen and study was created. The two story façade facing the courtyard is entirely glazed, which in turn is shaded by a folding, perforated metal skin that rests on an aluminum exoskeleton.