A new house for a musician, a biochemist, and their offspring, on a plot among other new houses on the edge of the village of Ingoldingen (population c.2500) which has a distant view of the Alps on a clear day. The house should include a music room for teaching and home concerts, living and dining spaces suitable for entertaining, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a double garage and somewhere to plant the basil where the slugs won't get at it. The music room should be accessible without passing through living rooms so that pupils can visit unobtrusively. Given that many people build more-or-less identical kit houses on such plots, this bespoke house should be individual - fitting its site but also acknowledging broader horizons. Planning rules were specific, requiring: the approximate position of the building on the plot, finished ground floor level, eaves level, the angle of the roof pitch, the direction of the roof ridge, and the percentage of dormer window possible.

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