OFFICINA ROMA is an experimental building practice in context of the exhibition “RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet” at the MAXXI in Rome.
For a week we built with 20 students from schools all over Italy using recycling materials.

On behalf of the Project Group MARKTHALLE IX we are working on the vision for a contemporary market hall in Berlin. The Market Hall IX, located in Kreuzberg between Eisenbahn- and Pücklerstr. should be again retransformed into the economic and social center of the neighborhood.

A complex challenge needs a complex strategy composed of 5 interweaved layers of discussion with the existing urban and social landscape: exploration, using, building, planning and space-making

Das „Prae-IBA-Team“, bestehen aus sieben interdisziplinär arbeitenden Experten und Expertinnen, entwickelte im Austausch mit der Projektgruppe der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung das Vorkonzept IBA BERLIN ZWANZIG ZWANZIG. Auf der Grundlage dieser Leitideen entstand bis Mitte 2011 in einem Diskussionsprozess im IBA Studio mit vielen Beteiligten ein Konzeptvorschlag für die Durchführung der IBA Berlin 2020.

The installation “THE BIG CRUNCH” was build as part of the „stadtfinden“ Architektursommer Darmstadt on the Georg-Büchner-Platz in Darmstadt.

THE GENERATOR is an experimental building laboratory for instant, participatory building practices in public space. Central issues of the research include: construction principles, new geometries for furniture and lightweight construction buildings, as well as new use possiblities and multiple programs for people to meet and interact in public.

Eichbaumoper characterises the temporary transformation of the metro station Eichbaum into an opera house. ‚Eichbaum’ is a crosspoint and station located between the cities of Essen and Mülheim. Once considered as a place of aspiration and hope, the ‚Eichbaum’ is now shaped by vandalism, fear and foreboding. Premiere: 24th of June, 2009

Invited by Storefront for Art and Architecture the Spacebuster was developed and designed to explore the qualities and possibilities of public space in New York City. Spacebuster interacts with the architectural and the social space and its conditions. It opens urban space for temporary collective uses.

The Kitchen Monument is a mobile sculpture which has two states of being. This zinc sheetclad sculpture can be extended into public space by a pneumatic spatial mantle that transforms it into a temporary collective space. Different programmes are staged in different places. Its broad spectrum of uses includes a banquet hall, conference room, cinema, concert hall, ballroom, dormitory, boxing arena and steam bath.

This project involved designing urban development strategies within the context of urban shrinkage. Essential aspects of the diversification process within this district were: to attract attention to smaller urban elements using the “Kolorado Plan”, to include residents in the development process and to initiate negotiation processes using developmental objectives and means.