These three residential units are located in the Ocean Park district of Santa Monica, California. Because the city of Santa Monica is opposed to high and medium density and has an architectural review board that controls the appearance of every building in the city, working with the zoning codes required a great deal of ingenuity. For a number of reasons (our belief in greater urban density, people’s desire to live in homes which include both working and living spaces), we wanted to propose an alternative to the prototypical single family home which is so prevalent in Southern California. These units were thus designed to provide a middle ground between free-standing homes and conventional apartments or condominiums.