The room says how one stands in it. One need only listen. – Jost Ebermann, building file, 1968
The House has many spaces, but only seven rooms; a room is a space with a rule. The rule says how one stands in it, what light prevails there and which dress applies. The rooms form a path, and the path has a direction. The Gate, the lodge on the canal on the ground floor of the old building: cold, daylight from the water side, a stone floor, a heavy door standing open towards the water, above it the firm's sign in the sandstone. On the wall a tide clock from the Marwitz workshop. Here one stands. Here the Aspirant sees every guest first. The Hall in the concrete wing: a high, bare room, fair-faced concrete with the ribs of the skylight, a long floor of dark wood. Here one stands in line. The roll call takes place here, the inspection, the showing. The Archive on the first floor of the old building: narrow, a single window, steel shelving to the ceiling, a desk, and on the lowest shelf a file box under seal. Here the Registrar sits, and whoever dictates to her or wants a file from h...
From the lore of Das Haus am Kanal.