The MISSION:House is a two-story hybrid residence. The street level is a multi-purpose space that serves as an ad hoc creative space for the family (architect, landscape architect, and two daughters), and for more formal commercial uses such as office or gallery space. The main residential area, which includes two bedrooms and an open living room, sits above. The house is both the home and living laboratory for the couple, who have made it their personal trial grounds for materials, light, and unorthodox construction techniques. Experiments range from floors of expansive steel plates, walls of thermal plastics, and magnetic closet/display walls, to integrated passive energy strategies, ingenious waste-stream material reclamation, and high-tech thermal and solar power collection.