Avala House is a prototype to propose how design can make compact living desirable. Resting on two utility rooms, the minimal single living space is joined by three terraces and forms a central open courtyard. By opening the facade-length doors the interior space transitions to one of a landscape. The construction logic, joining, and details of the house are a direct result of on-site collaboration with contractor-owner Zoran Spasojevic. The emphasis on local material stock, and contractor skills, challenges the norm of architecture being a complete conceptual product, but rather opening the process as a genuine conversation on the process of construction, future use and the necessity of planned maintenance.