As an existing house, the client wanted to open the tight 1940s plan and allow for a flexible and more open interior, while integrating the site and adding a pool and accessory building with a garage to the alley below, capped with a cabana room above. The result was a holistic reconsideration of the site. Bounding the edges with a vegetative perimeter, stitching the ground plane with interlaced concrete paving planks and vegetative bands to allow for durable yet permeable surfaces, the entry walk is flanked by an inset water channel that produces ambient white noise. The front porch is extended to match the existing volume of the house and a sliding bench nests over a planter that anchors a decorative steel structural column to the cascading deck. The front walls are opened up with transparent and oper­able surfaces. The new roof and wall material are synthesized to emphasize the simplicity of the form and continuity of the figure as a simple mass.