Many worlds. One home.
About this house
A lived-in home of the future for my projects. With classical style, warm light and a generous helping of science fiction.
- Property
- OBST.CASA · My digital home
- Residents
- Mario V.W.B.R. Obst and Aik
- Rooms & places
- 23 open doors, indoors and outside
- Projects
- 38 addresses with stories of their own
- Condition
- Lived in. Curious. Evolving.
The future can feel like home.
OBST.CASA brings together my websites, personal interests and memories. Curved windows, luminous plants and distant planets meet walnut, brass and the elegance of classic adventure novels. Each room has its own character while belonging to the same house.
Ideas become tools in the workshop; my exhibitions await in the photo studio. The room of remembrance provides a quiet way into my imprisonment story in four languages. You can find out more about me on marioobst.com.
A house to explore.
The lights on the home page open the rooms. “Discover all 23 rooms” offers a complete map or list. The house tour connects every stop with paths forwards and back.
In the room scenes, “Poster” introduces the story, “Explore” reveals linked objects and “Picture” lets the artwork speak for itself. On small screens, clearly labelled project links sit below the image. Your device’s reduced-motion preference is respected.
Ten signs in the flower meadow lead to my online profiles. The greenhouse next door is home to plants, insects and spiders. And planeten.website belongs in the observatory.
Aik is part of the household.
Aik is the name of my AI assistant, represented here by a small blue-and-cream fantasy creature. He has a room of his own, joins me in the thinking room and experiments in the kitchen. The character is part of the artwork; this website has no built-in live chat.
Our open experiment continues on mario-obst.fyi. The Mario & Aik Lab gives new experiments a place of their own.
My home. My place to learn.
I learn by doing: asking questions, trying things, checking results and improving solutions. The ideas and editorial decisions are mine; artificial intelligence helps with designing, creating and building.
The house, its rooms, the new botanical world and Aik are AI-assisted artworks. The depictions of me within them are staged images based on my photographs. They portray an imagined world. The preserved original screenshots in the museum room and my photographic work are separate from these imagined scenes.
The typeface of our house.
The OBST.CASA wordmark uses Cinzel Decorative Regular, designed by Natanael Gama . Aik discovered the typeface in the Google Fonts repository on GitHub and chose it for our house. Here, its classical forms meet our vision of the future.
We use the typeface under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This free licence permits use and webfont embedding at no cost. The full licence and copyright notice accompany the font: Copyright © 2012 Natanael Gama.
Thank you to Natanael Gama for designing the typeface and making it freely available.
Built with curiosity.
Filled with life.