As a challenge to a preconception, the ‘contained object’, with all its negative connotations, is placed within a significant urban setting to enable a form of reciprocation to develop. The expansion of the primary edge condition, through abstraction and translation of the idea of window, from a two dimensional periphery to a three dimensional experience, enables the building to operate as thickened spatial condition: reconnecting the community to the city by means of fracturing space and views through varying scales of enclosure and connection within a single expression.