What convinced you to join the hej.build Architecture Advisory Board?
I enjoy exchanging ideas with people and thinking things through together, because conversations often spark new thoughts that would never have come about without input from others. I’m looking forward to seeing beyond my own field and to exciting encounters.
What is most on your mind at the moment in architecture, interior architecture or building products?
What’s on my mind is how architecture and interior architecture can be valued more by society. How do we create awareness that good design and high-quality products are not a side issue? Well-made spaces and buildings do something to us: they give people a sense of security.
What does good architecture/interior architecture mean to you?
For me, good architecture and interior architecture begin with listening: what is really needed? This is followed by an individual, fresh idea that meets exactly these requirements and shapes the project from the large scale down to the small details.
Is there a current highlight or an all-time favourite project?
I like looking back on our first project: BONECHINA. A ceramic origami elephant, specially developed furniture made of pear wood and individually designed relief tiles. What’s especially nice is that a partnership grew out of it, and since then we’ve been able to realise many exciting projects and products from and with ceramics.
What do you see as the core of your studio’s work?
Creativity needs a firm structure to really unfold. We think freely and work very precisely.
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Which topic is keeping you busy right now?
Tell us briefly which building products it’s about and what you want to achieve. We’ll get back to you with an initial assessment. We often start with our »Day One« workshop: a day at your premises, where marketing, sales and senior management set priorities together.