Given the site within the Kartoffelraekkerne row houses, the challenge of designing a unit which fit into the context and responded to the social fabric was approached by examining the relationship between the public and private realms that play such a key role in the communal interaction within the neighborhood. By observing the dichotomy between the large open space to the west and the dense urban fabric to the east a natrual axis was formed, formally suggested by the presence of a shifting wall. Acting as a threshold between the public and private realms within the dwelling, the wall defines the amount of transparency the interior spaces have to the outside world.