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Urban sprawl surrounds an 80 acre nature conservancy north of Dallas, Texas. Caldisacked neighborhoods line each border of the land, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. Oversized houses, squeezed onto each lot, look over and across the land from their second and third stories. Early one Spring, three portions of houses sprout from the ground inside the conservancy just across the fence from the neighborhood homes. These interloping structures are identical in size, color, style, and materials to the houses in the adjoining neighborhoods. The residents of the neighborhoods who mostly use the conservancy as a place to walk their dogs, encounter these architectural forms on their daily outings. Their children climb on them, stand atop their roofs, and peer inside their windows. Do they recognize these structures as elements of their own lives? Do they see them as something out of place within the nature conservancy? Are the houses rising up, spreading out into the land or are they sinking back down?