This project considers the pavilion as a typological springboard for coalescing formal creativity with material research. The design contemplates “reflection” “transparency” and “veiling” as key properties of glass and as the thought or consideration that allows us to engage with the environment around us. Students explore how we interact with, modulate, control, or are transformed by the spaces. This project is an opportunity to raise awareness of what it means to “reflect” and how it can help us to relate to the world around us. Students are asked to design a small pavilion that will serve as a stand-alone retail environment (tea room, café, gift shop, florist, bookstore, etc.). Embedded within the program of cultural significance (museum), the store is meant to adapt to the thematic flexibility of current exhibits. In this high-intensity group design project, students use a limited palette of materials to design an interior enclosure having to do with “reflection”, and interaction with the environment around us. Think of it as “research” about how architecture filters or mediates between inside and outside, between you and the context around you. The project focuses on the scale of the human body interfacing with architecture, and the opportunistic use of the materials. The team approach should stimulate dialogue and encourage richer and more substantial results in a short spurt of time than is possible by yourself. It also reminds us that all architecture is collaborative and interactive.