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.

Resembling a 'friendly wooden robot' seated in the corner of the V&A's John Madejski Garden' this building would invite children to investigate and explore various internal spaces for play and contemplation. The project title is a witty reference to the 'International Style', a strand of early 20th-century Modernism that is celebrated in this building's rejection of ornamentation and its exclusive use of right angles.