Open House is a vertical village, a social sculpture. We were invited by the ANYANG PUBLIC ART PROJECT (APAP 2010) to design, build and program the center of the Open City, a self-learning laboratory, constantly in creation and transformation for the collective research of the New Community.
At the TODAYSART festival in the Hague we build a “Vortex” – a space like a whirlwind from locally available materials.
For the 2012 De Wereld van Witte de With Festival entitled “The Street – Live Issue!” the Witte de With Straat is blocked for traffic for the first time. The space usually occupied by parked and moving cars is given to the people for alternative use and program connected to the festivals topic.
In our project for Hong Kong we have a look on water as a common good. We focus our work around the fountain, as an old tool to provide water to be used by all.
Invided by the Goethe-Institute China we develop a project for the Berlin pavilion of the Shanghai Biennale 2012 based on the story of the architect Richard Paulick (1903-1976).
At the TODAYSART festival in the Hague we build a “Vortex” – a space like a whirlwind from locally available materials.
Video-Interview with raumlabor
Playful Art or New Forms of Activism?, Den Haag
2012
A 50 meter long temporay staircase leads to the roof of the Alvar-Alto-Kulturhaus in Wolfsburg – following an original idea of Alvar-Alto. The staircaise is not only a “short cut” but also functions as a summer-cafe on the roof.
Die Arbeit “future one”, die raumlaborberlin für die Regionale in Murau in der Steiermark entwickelt hat, besteht aus dem Wort “ZUKUNFT”, das als Schriftzug auf dem abgeholzten Hang am Lärchberg oberhalb der Stadt Murau installiert wird.
The aim of the workshop is to intervene in Montreal’s public space and to collaboratively produce a temporary installation that will explore the potentials of urban public space as a place for interaction, informal meeting and a new imagination.
Die Große Weltausstellung 2012 is an exposition in 15 pavilions spread across the vast airfield. The project is our statement to the ongoing discussion about the future of the site. Together with HAU (Hebbel Theater Berlin) we´ve invited 15 directors, architects, installation- and performance-artists. They each developed a work for the site and for a pavilion designed by raumlabor.
Ein Dorf in der Stadt: Georgwerder, anders als der Rest von Hamburg.
Gemeinsam mit den Ortsexperten in unserem Team haben wir eine Konzept für eine langfristige Perspektive Georgswerders entwickelt: im Ergebnis ein Rahmenplan der in verschiedenen Zeithorizonten Meilensteine formuliert und sowohl wichtige kurzfristige Impulse setzt, aber auch eine Vision für eine langfristige Entwicklung Georsgwerders beschreibt.
EMMA is a mobile table that grows and adaptes as needed. For two years EMMA will travel through the Mariannenquarter in Berlin-Kreuzberg and host several events in the courtyards of the neighbourhood.
For NEXT we develop out of basic elements of digital worlds a concept that characterizes a strong two-sidedness: user interface and hardware, scenery and construction, interior and exterior.
Für die re:publica entwickelte raumlabor ein Raumkonzept und eine Szenografie, die floating chairs.
Eichbaumpark is the vision of a park in Mülheim/Ruhr. The park area is cut through the lanes of the highway interchange A40/B1 and the track line of the light rail line U18.
Für die in den späten 70er Jahren erbaute Stadthalle am Karlsruhe Festplatz haben wir ein Gestaltungskonzept entwickelt, dass auf irrationale Elemente des Bestandes reagiert und mit einer stark geometrisierten Raumgestaltung einen spannungsreichen Dialog zwischen Alt und Neu schafft.
raumlabor designed the festival architecture for the transmediale 12 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. The installation consists of fragments, which seen as an ensemble evoke memories of habitations. The objects appear as a new species, a fusion of furniture and construction elements.
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
raumlabor developed the exhibition design for “Zelluloid. Film ohne Kamera” at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt a. M.