This project called for the design of a volume of 50,000 cubic feet, focusing on the impact of precise decisions about skin, aperture and volume and the dialogue between them. Inspiration for the skin came from that of an armadillo and the qualities of tapering and overlapping densities. In an armadillo, the skin is thicker in both directions on one side and gets proportionately thinner as it overlaps the next ring of armor, keeping an overall consistent thickness. In the project, a consistent volume is maintained within, but the reading of that volume changes as the skin allows more light penetration through both a decrease in thickness and increase in aperture sizes as the volume ascends.