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

An exhibition architecture for the audi urban future award, a competition looking for new ideas for urban developments for the life in 2030. Invited architects include alison brooks architects, big, cloud 9, diller scofidio + renfro and standartarchitecture. raumlabor developed a compact metaphor on urban density as carrier of the competitions’ contents.

Bang Bang is touring through the urban landscape between Seoul and Anyang since september 2009 by invitation of the 3rd Anyang Public Art Project (APAP2010), Anyang. raumlaborkorea

Raumlabor approached this project with the questions: is reinventing the history of a place a good idea, when the current accepted history isn’t helping the present situation? Is it possible by reinventing a history to create a new perspective for a site which has undergone a century of urban catastrophes?

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.

Subway-station Eichbaum between Essen and Mülheim/Ruhr is an urban spot of spatial deficiency, that has to be converted in near future. The project “Eichbaum Countdown” adresses to young people of the neighborhood, who are connected to the Eichbaum-station.

In St. Pölten, the regional capital city from Lower Austria - not far from Vienna - an expedition is being prepared. Where to? What for? What will we look for and discover? Who will take part? These are questions that raumlaborberlin will discuss with the inhabitants of the city.

An urban strategy for the transormation of a central area of the city of munich. Proposing to work with a flexible framework of tools and rules, the strategy is aiming to design a development path, which allows to keep and improve local initiatives and qualities and is sensitive to the threat of gentrification for the diversity of central urban areas.

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.

Die Ausstellung “Seismograph City - Nachhaltige Strategien in Architektur und Städtebau” fand im Sommer 2009 in Hamburg statt. Der Ort der Ausstellung war das gut erreichbar gelegene Foyer eines Bürogebäudes, was für Materialwahl und gestalterische Möglichkeiten besonsondere Herausforderungen mit sich brachte. Wir definierten es als unsere Aufgabe, das Thema Nachhaltigkeit in einer Atmosphäre der Leichtigkeit, Eleganz und Zugänglichkeit zu präsentieren - in gezieltem Kontrast zu der oft als sehr belastend empfundenen Diskussion.

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…

an installation by raumlabor in collaborations with students from Bauhaus Universität Weimar in the bauhaus archiv / museum für gestaltung, berlin: a 1:2 replica of the canope of the “Haus der Elektroindustrie”, located on Alexanderplatz 1-5.
Exhibition: 27.08. - 29.08.09

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

sleeping where you don´t want to be? in a cheap hotel? in the ikea funished guest appartment of the theatre? on the sofa of a friends friend? raumlaborberlin has designed their own mobile dream hotel for workshops, group exhibitions, symposions and festivals. now we are waiting for the perfect investor….

The idea behind the Houses of Literature for Children is to create places, with the only purpose to generate a contact between children and the written culture. This contact is meant to create a permanent link to literature and reading aswell as learning through reading, recognising and understanding.

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 project “les Archivistes” is the search for parts of a puzzle that make up the history of a modern city. Over one year, residents of Herouville St.Claire participated in workshops with actors, choreographers, artists, writers, and architects, from which emerged fragments of their own imaginary City Archive. Herouville St.Claire is a 1960’s “ville neuf” (new town), planned and built with all the urban resources postwar modernism had to offer. “Le Tabularium” now attempted to put the puzzle together.

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.