Stealth House is a radical reworking of a 1950's bomb-site in-fill house, that reconfigures and expands the original from two to five bedrooms, and repairs the disruption of the streetscape where the post-war construction failed. Retaining a few masonry remnants, a new volume is framed up in timber and then wrapped in two folded "cloaks", one in vertical black timber, one in horizontal/sloped grey-green mineralised roofing-felt. The black cloak increases the volume of the two main floors, mediates between the existing Modernist and Edwardian neighbours, and redefines the relationship between the interior and exterior of the house. Folds in the fa?ade fabric react locally to the need for more or less volume, reference adjacent bay windows/set-backs, and set up specific exterior views. The grey-green cloak forms external roof space, unrolls up and over the penthouse to a cantilevered corner, and references the historic roof-scape of the terrace. The project was procured as architect-assisted self-build, with on-site realisation of design intent; a collaboration between architect, furniture-designer client with keen eye and hammer, and highly-evolved builder providing labour