<P> And in the same interview Hoff continues: </P> <P> Our shared point of departure was that we were working with physical settings, and we were both frustrated and displeased with the architecture from the period, particularly when it came to spaces for living . We felt that there was a need to loosen up the rigid confines of urban planning, giving back the gift of creativity to individual human beings and allowing them to shape and design their houses or dwellings themselves--instead of having some clever architect pop up, telling you how you should live . We were thinking in terms of open - ended systems where things could grow and evolve as required . </P> <P> For instance, we imagined a kind of mobile production unit, but unfortunately the drawings have been lost . It was a kind of truck with a nozzle at the back . Like a bee building its hive . The nozzle would emit and apply material that grew to form amorphous mushrooms or whatever you might imagine . It was supposed to be computer - controlled, allowing you to create interesting shapes and sequences of spaces . It was a merging of organic and technological systems, a new way of structuring the world . And a response that counteracted industrial uniformity . We had this idea that sophisticated software might enable us to mimic the way in which nature creates products--where things that belong to the same family can take different forms . All oak trees are oak trees, but no two oak trees are exactly alike . And then a whole new material--polystyrene foam--arrived on the scene . It behaved like nature in the sense that it grew when its two component parts were mixed . Almost like a fungal growth . This made it an obvious choice for our work in Atelier Cyberspace . </P> <P> The works of Atelier Cyberspace were originally shown at a number of Copenhagen venues and have later been exhibited at The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen as part of the exhibition "What's Happening?" </P>

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