Steven Holl and Dimitra Tsachrelia visited Ex of In House in Rhinebeck, New York within the scope of an architectural film organised by Spirit of Space. In a 6-min film, the architects explain the core concepts and exploratory mission of the Ex of In House.

The Ex of In House explores a language of space, aimed at inner spatial energy strongly bound to the ecology of the place - questioning current clichés of architectural language and commercial practice. The house is a built manifestation of the research and development project Explorations of "IN" under development at Steven Holl Architects since June 2014.

''The explorations of that project began with working on issues of abstraction and space. We're discovering links between architecture and neuroscience that we never knew about before. So, what is the really interesting things is how we need abstraction. The explorations we started with Venn Diagrams and number of permutations and roll of drawings first, the we did some 3D-printed models and Venn diagram of spheres intersecting spheres become one of the most interesting thing,'' says Steven Holl.

''So, this particular model we decided to take further and then we said an ok, this our object and let's do the reverse. So, this is a negative and then we decided to get more parallel walking surfaces we would insert a partial tesseract.''

''But at certain point, this object became curiously like a small house and we decided to make it into a guest house.''

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