HIGH_EXPOSURE    RUSCHBERG, GERMANY, 1999-2001 Ruschberg is a small rural community in a remote Hunsrueck Valley in Southwest Germany. Here, the landscape resembles a model railway setting. The small houses’ generic architecture with its double pitch roofs creates a sense of sameness that seems not to allow for any deviation. Homogeneity and assimilation are the maxims of private live and private building. The interiors are dark, the activitues in the exterior gardes controlled by neighbors. The clients, old-established citizens of the community, decided differently for their new home. They wanted to be in direct contact with the outside world, the weather and the view, while still enjoying their privacy inside their home ­ which made them the prototypical modern clients. HE_House had to make the landscape literally traversing the domestic interior. HE_House is situated on a hillside overlooking the Reichenbachtal. Engaging with its neighboring homes by use of the same materiality, white plaster finish and sheet-metal roof, it does state its difference with its inverted roof and the secretive street façade. On entering, the interior is structured by the huge picture windows framing the far-distance views in three directions and opening the interior onto the surrounding terrace. Additionally, a skylight and an interior courtyard allow the weather to intrude ­ remotely controlled by the inhabitants. While only the bathrooms have doors, different zones of intimacy and publicity are organized by free standing walls and windows. Vertically and horizontally, HE_House is a controlled envelope customized for its two inhabitants and allowing them the acoustic, sensual and visual contact with the landscape outside.