The space station, as an extreme example of the utopian city and efficient habitable structures, is an integral part of the past century’s vision of the future. This future has arrived, and the dream of inhabited cities in outer space will remain unfulfilled for a long time to come.

Theater happens right now! A luminous mist of bubbles floating between the old bathhouse and the shaft tower of the former colliery Zeche Zollverein. On the one hand, it reminds of the cleaning process on the other of the transformation into a cultural location.

The chaise bordelaise is a participative, educative, social sculpture with a private use for the „INSIDERS“exhibition in Arc en Reve / CAPC, Bodeaux.
09.10.2009 - 07.02.2010

The endless city is the construction of an abstract body. The design of the pavilion attempt to re-insert an entity. Becoming a sign in the landscape, it announce the museum coming…

Vision for the transformation of Eichbaum underground station between Mülheim and Essen into an opera house. A new type of opera will be created in an on-site opera site office in collaboration with specialists in composition, text and space in direct confrontation with the everyday conditions of the place. (premiere planned to take place in 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.

Design of a festival centre for the Steirischer Herbst Festival 2008 whose main theme is “Misfortuneavoidance Strategies”. The festival centre will be located in an empty baroque museum building. We’re interested in the idea of building an explosion; a shape and structure which develops a fascinating force at the exact moment of its dissolution. We will reduce the colours of the interior walls, floors and fixtures to a few grey tones so that only the shapes of the objects stand out.

“The Hotel-Stadt directly developed into self-regulating, informal urban strategies generated through participation of and cooperation between artists and populace, outsiders and locals, top-down and bottom-up movements. Just like a high-rise favela […][“Hotel Neustadt”] was a city without a master plan, a new city within a fading context, a temporary city within permanence, a nomadic city within a settlement.” Kyong Park, from: “Moving cities, moving nations”, Hotel Neustadt p.120 et seq. Berlin 2004

erschienen im Jovis Verlag
herausgegeben von raumlaborberlin, Julia Maier und dem Heidelberger Kunstverein
192 Seiten, 2-sprachig deutsch/englisch
20 x 27cm, broschiert, 28,00 €

An ideas workshop is working out a concept for an integrated urban development of Tempelhof considering the special situation in Berlin, recognizing urban pioneers as catalysts and initiators of urban activity and applying them as tools of site development. Site activation by urban pioneers and culural initiatives is linked with long-term urban development concepts from the start and is taken to mean an integrative component of the entire development process.

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.