The clients for this residential addition are two biomolecular scientists, who are married and share a laboratory at the university. The site is a clearing in the woods of rural Virginia. The original structure was built in the 1970s as part of a small community of experimental solar houses. The scope of work to renovate a kitchen expanded to solve circulation and functional issues throughout the house. The expansion of the ground floor plan creates the base for a small office and loft space above. The Japanese anime film, My Neighbor Totoro, provides inspiration and illustrates key elements of the project: an addition that reads as a pavilion against a larger roof form, a folded metal roof surface, a trellis lean-to structure, and projecting windows. Details based on previous work include sheet metal siding and insulated, projecting frames for metal-clad wood windows. A ceiling made of a pine, tongue-and-groove (T&G) siding that was originally explored in the Waldorf School and the River Bend House evolves into a floating, folding surface concealing LED cove lighting. The T&G material is also used as an exterior surface of the overhanging soffits and the ceiling of the covered porch formed by the balcony. The porch mediates the transition between parking court and garden, and provides a threshold to the recessed entry and interior gallery space beyond. The cedar trellis provides solar shading and visually connects the addition to the ground and the original structure. The folded theme is further explored in the detailing of the copper roof, vitrine, and cedar siding. Steel assemblies and parts were developed in close collaboration with a metal fabricator and were critical to the success of the guardrail, trellis, and bench designs. On the second floor, a small meditation alcove is inserted between roof trusses space framing an original bedroom adjacent to the new office. The bamboo flooring folds up the wall surface to become the applied horizontal and vertical finishes of the alcove. The sustainable design features of the project include a highly insulated structure, low emission interior finishes, rapidly renewable and local materials, and the reuse of architectural elements and materials (kitchen cabinets, soapstone, and concrete terrace fragments).