Educated as architect in Germany I moved to New York in 2000. My work fluctuates between architecture and a wide range of artistic media, with a particular focus on installations in the public sphere. Over the past two years I have been engaged with a body of work under the title "basics", which explores an abstracted notion of form, space and utility. "Basics" is based on a constructive logic of additive dimensional lumber, configured spatially following a set of formal vocabulary. The work wants to be experienced both as an abstract sculptural gesture as well as a usable and interactive spatial environment. Conceived as part of a larger installation for the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania, the series has since had a number of iterations as public installations throughout the US. The proposed work for the Beltline will follow this double entendre of a formally strong sculpture that concurrently also acts as usable spatial environment, constructed of 2x4s.