Why a stoa?
A stoa was a covered colonnade in a Greek city: a long porch, open along one side, where merchants set up stalls, philosophers held forth, and anyone could step in out of the sun. Around 300 BC, Zeno of Citium began teaching at the Stoa Poikile — the Painted Porch — on the north edge of the Athenian agora. His school took its name from the building, which is why the philosophy is called Stoicism. A stoa was never a temple or a monument. It was working architecture: one roof, many uses, everything in the open.
That felt right for a page of prototypes — one roof, a row of openings, each leading somewhere different. The .haus is the German half of the name, a nod to another school that believed a house for work should be plain, honest, and built from simple geometry. A Greek porch on a German house.