After designing various iterations of the same space in the building for clients, their home became a confident playground for shelved ideas. It’s an extreme take on open plan—a doorless space where curved partitions guide the eye and peek-a-boo cutouts join rooms. Light filters throughout from a single wall of windows framing a vast cross-section of train tracks, a uniquely expansive view for a city dwelling.

Today, Adam and Deborah head their business from this compact and consciously malleable home and office they built themselves.

This portrait is part of our ongoing collaboration with ZEIT Online, who presents a special curation of our pictures on ZEIT Magazin Online.