This project is about a highly glamorized domestic typology: the urban bachelor pad. The client, a very young and successful Wall Street commodities trader wanted to create an entirely interior landscape away from the city and the outside world. Our response was to consider the experience of this primary residence as a daily return to Plato’s Cave; as the conscious exfoliation of exterior stresses through the creation of an enveloping abstract domestic landscape, where light and shadow could simply be appreciated for their beauty and mystery, and the outside would could cease to exist. The resulting completed project, Fractal Pad, is a sumptuous geometric oasis for a lover of mathematics and geometry.