einszueins architektur

The name eins:eins [ains tsu: ains] denotes a balanced relation of two things to each other.

client:architect
We strive for this balance on all levels of our daily work and our daily interaction with other people.

planned:built
In the language of architects, eins:eins refers to the scale that describes the relationship between what is thought or planned and what is actually built. The scale eins:eins expresses a high degree of detailing and thus the maximum approximation of the thought to the built.

these:antithesis
In addition eins:eins for us generally describes thinking in terms of proportionality. We are anxious to transform things that seem incompatible into relation to each other. For us it is contradiction and conflict brought into architecture that makes it interesting, exciting and unique. Without these ever new conflicts there would be no need for architects, because there can be standardized answers to standardized questions - and indeed a large proportion of building production now gets by without architects. We are interested in design as a dialectical process in which architecture is created as a synthesis from a field of tension between thesis and antithesis. Although architecture is generated from different parameters, in the end it appears as a self-contained, homogeneous structure.

on surface:in depth
The building still refers to its antithetical origin, but has freed itself from its dependency and can now also be used for itself exist. The tension appears more profound than superficial: it enables the building to be read on several levels; ideally, it allows a slow decoding - an ever deeper discovery of enigmatic references and regularities, thus leading to aesthetic sustainability.

Julian Hillenkamp studied at the University of Colorado at Denver and graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. He worked for Hafenatelier and Carsten Roth Architect, Hamburg.

Christoph Roselius graduated from the Technical University in Braunschweig and received his Master of Architecture at the Parsons School of Design, New York. He worked for Joel Sanders Architect, New York and Carsten Roth Architekt, Hamburg.