OF CASTLES IN THE AIR, WOODEN SHACKS AND DETERMINATION

Some people will think to themselves in their old, angled apartment: How good that the utopias were not realized. Others, like the designer Dominik Lutz, may have had the idea of developing a spatial structure themselves. There's no need to invent a new social structure at the same time. Dominik Lutz wants to flexibly structure living spaces with just a single system element. A modest goal compared to Friedman's ideals. Lutz is not interested in creating living space or founding colonies in outer space, but rather in organizing everyday life spatially in the simplest possible way. So simple, in fact, that a three-dimensional structure can be built with a single pane of glass. He was enthusiastic about a logical trick that could be used to construct numerous combinations of shelves and room dividers - without screws, drilling, nailing or gluing, but simply by interlocking a single component consisting of a plywood panel and aluminum T-profiles that fit together perfectly. With a view to marketing, his professor recommended MAGAZIN. His design was convincing, but after examining the production possibilities and costs, he was turned down: too expensive. It couldn't be, Lutz thought, and contacted the manufacturing companies himself, tinkering and mediating with the technicians there until MAGAZIN ordered the first thousand panels.