Aura incorporates the indoors to the outdoors through window placement and scale focused on bringing in light into the home. Through plants thriving off the light brought in, the home is further connected to the outdoors in its most public spaces. The home uses light to bring comfort and the placement of windows to create privacy and combined linear flow of most private–the bedroom–to most public–with the open living, dining, and kitchen space.

Designed for the Ahimsa Collective and Oakland City Challenge, Aura takes note of the details and elements most important to the comfort of those who were formerly incarcerated.