Using the landscape of the Museum as a test site, the V&A invited nineteen architects to submit proposals for structures that examine notions of refuge and retreat. Responding to specific locations in the Museum, the architects explored themes such as study, work, play, performance and contemplation. Seven of the proposals were then selected for construction at full-scale.

These projects promoted an attitude to architecture where to 'dwell' meant something more than simply to find shelter. Each building invited the participation of the viewer. These immersive environments reawakened people's ability to inhabit architectural space on both a physical and an emotional level.

The architects propose that this structure would be built in Finland, in an abandoned industrial space. The C-Laboratory team would inhabit the building (with its live/work spaces, sauna and fireplace) for two weeks. During this time they would write, edit and print a newspaper. The structure would then be dismantled and re-assembled at the V&A as a creative laboratory. The newspaper would be distributed around the Museum during the exhibition.