What was the basic concept behind your installation ‘ideal house’ at this year’s imm Cologne fair?

It is a reaction to an object in the middle of a building. We felt that it had to be transparent and open the idea was about carving away space a sort of erosion. Its like taking a volume and eroding it. it's related to a piece called 'z-scape' where the starting point is a block. There was a big discussion in the office some years back where we talked about carving, the act of carving away space. It allows light to come in. this lead to thoughts on exploring geology, archeology and topography. Larger pieces are informed by landscapes, and the erosion of them. With this house the idea was that one can move from the chair to the bed to the sofa, as if they were one continuous piece. its a concept of living, as it is on two floors you can move up and down, look back on where you have come from. This piece is not in isolation of the other work, forms always come out of what we are looking at, at that time. Sometimes there is a departure, but it is usually a product of what we a researching at the time, what's taking place at that moment.