Designed for a creative professional and his family, the Patio | House includes two rental units and a duplex owner-apartment.  The clients wished to construct a clean, well-lit, Nordic-Modern home set within the shell of a historic Brooklyn Brownstone.  The clients enjoy hosting gatherings with their design-industry colleagues to discuss and share their ideas.  These discussions often took place in a delightful, little, rectangular, brick patio in the rear yard.  Our design intent was to preserve this patio and bring its quality of intimacy and openness into the body of the house.  By creating an open plan with framed views of the rear, we created a series of connections between the interior and exterior.