This house, of exceptional architectural and cultural value, was designed by architect Manfred Prasser and built between 1995 and 2001 — largely through his own labor. From 2022 to 2024 it underwent a complete energy retrofit and was brought fully up to date technically, all without altering the original design. It served as his retirement home, where he tested architectural concepts that would later reappear in other private houses he designed across Berlin and Brandenburg.

It was an open house. Lectures were held here for invited guests, and it became a gathering place for architects, artists, musicians and politicians from Berlin and Brandenburg. The highlights were seven Christmas concerts organized as charity events for people living with cancer, drawing up to 400 guests. These events were initiated by Professor Geert Dellas, former chief physician at the Charité hospital in Berlin.

In construction terms, the building is a timber-frame structure on a ground-level concrete foundation. A truss system conceived by Prasser himself forms the structural skeleton of the two-story house with its attic level. Through a special arrangement of posts, beams and hangers, part of the ground floor is column-free across a span of eight meters. The house has numerous exits and a wealth of windows that cause it to merge naturally with its generous garden. From the property, the view opens out to the rear across Brandenburg pastureland towards a woodland in the distance.