My Story

I grew up as a professional tennis player, where years of discipline and self reflection revealed the invisible force of emotion, how it shapes perception, focus, and the way we exist in the world. I then started climbing, which brought me into the wilderness, where exposure to height, scale, and risk stripped everything back and awakened a fascination: deeper awareness of the earth and my place within it.

These lessons led me to architecture, where I found a way to translate this mindset into something lasting. I am pursuing a vision to help redefine how humans live in relationship with the natural world, creating spaces that do not separate us from our environment, but allow us to exist more fully within it.

Emotions

I think feeling is one of the most beautiful parts of life. The moments that stay with us are the ones that move us, whether through curiosity, anticipation, tension, release, fear, or awe. That is what first drew me to architecture. I am interested in how space can shape emotional response, influence mood, and make us feel more present in the world around us.

To me, architecture is not only about function or form. It is also about what a space does to us. I want to create environments that stay with people because of how they make them feel.

The Wilderness

I feel this most strongly in natural environments. Mountains, glaciers, forests, and remote landscapes strip experience back to something immediate and real. In those places I feel everything more intensely: adrenaline, fear, fascination, exposure, clarity. They make me aware of my body, my surroundings, and the force of the environment all at once.

What draws me to the wild is that survival depends on learning to feel nature properly. In the mountains, for example, you have to read the wind, notice small changes in the weather, listen carefully, and stay alert to the terrain around you. That kind of awareness has shaped the way I think about architecture. It made me interested in spaces that do not shut the environment out, but sharpen our relationship to it.

My Vision

From that comes my vision for architecture. I want to develop housing that protects us without cutting us off from the world outside. Spaces where the surrounding environment can still be felt from within, and where the boundary between inside and outside becomes less absolute.

I am interested in housing that reconnects people to place, not through spectacle, but through atmosphere, perception, and a stronger sensory relationship to their environment. My aim is to create architecture that makes us be more aware, more grounded, and more connected to where we are. Architecture that makes us feel.

Experiences

  • Rothorn (2832m)

    One day climb in bad weather, close to the edge.

    We walked straight into a thunderstorm and almost died, even though there was no bad weather forecast. Lightning hit the rock about 30 meters next to me. Then hail. Our emergency kit saved us, otherwise we probably would’ve gotten hypothermia.

    There was no way down during the rain because the rocks were insanely slippery. We were on a wall with about 600 meters just below us. I genuinely thought I was going to die that day. Nature is unpredictable. But what an experience.

  • Tennis (Bundesliga Match 2022)

    The first time I saw my name on a billboard…

    I lost a super close match against an opponent who was 10 years older. Before the match, no one respected me because I was too young. At the beginning, no one watched the match or cared.

    But after some time, more and more people came to watch and support me. We played for 3 hours and 20 minutes. I lost in three sets. After that, everyone looked at me differently. With real respect. I will never forget that moment.

  • Weißspitze (2420m)

    Amazing climb for 6 hours.

    We almost couldn’t find the way back. But the best part was seeing so many different landscapes and environments in one day.

  • Grossglockner (3798m)

    My hardest experience so far.

    A two day climb. First day up to the hut. Second day we started at 5am and went straight up the mountain. After 15 minutes in high altitude I was already at my absolute limit. The glacier was incredibly steep and I had only learned the right technique the day before. I talked to people in the hut that night. They had climbed Kilimanjaro and other mountains and were surprised this was my first climb ever.

    I had no idea what would hit me the next day. Each step hurt. Massive blisters on my feet. I could barely walk and I couldn’t wear any shoes for the next two weeks. Six hours up, six hours down. I was at my limit after 15 minutes and still kept going without knowing what was coming. But I made it. And it was the most incredible experience of my life.

  • A person hiking up a dark, rocky slope towards a cloudy sky, with some sparse green vegetation on the ground.

    Ätna Expedition

    Hiking up Etna, I saw one of the most different landscapes I’ve ever been in.

    Volcanic rock everywhere. No soil. Just rock as the floor. Trees growing in shapes I had never seen before. Little moss patches and small bits of similar vegetation scattered around. It felt unreal. Like Mars, but on earth.

  • Plitvice Nature Reserve, Croatia

    Travelling Croatia, I slept in the car for 10 days.

    I woke up with the sunrise and went to bed with the sunset. It was a completely new way of living. I saw places that were empty of people, places no one would ever reach without having the flexibility of a car. Ten days in pure nature, away from society. A whole different connection to nature. Fully depending on it.