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.

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.

am 28.04.12 ist unser geliebter freund und partner matthias rick gestorben. er war so positiv und voller leben! wir vermissen ihn zutiefst.

the very sad truth is that our beloved friend and partner matthias rick died on 28.04.12. we are shocked to lose him. he was such an energetic person, so positive and full of life.

a very happy moment in matthias life: the concert in eichbaumoper!

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.

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.

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

SALOTTO URBANO is an open house for residents and students in L’Aquila. It consists of a shelter that can be opened to all sides, a café/bar, a tribune with a stage, storage and stair element. Different uses such as theatre, discussions, workshops, open-air concerts etc. lead to new ways of interactions in the city. Public space becomes a public stage.

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.

EMMA is a series of 7 tables built from old pallets, bamboo sticks and empty cable rolls
that traveled through geneve
like a train
being a structure for dinners, cinema, building an imaginary city with children, round table and performance

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

Vom 26.01.-06.07.2011 wurden im IBA Studio in der Zollgarage des Flughafengebäude Tempelhof die Leitideen der IBA 2020 im Rahmen verschiedener Talk, Walks und Events öffentlich diskutiert. Mit ihrem Studio machte sich die IBA aktiv auf Partnersuche – offen für alle, die sich ernsthaft und kreativ einbringen wollen.

For the Todays Art Festival in Brussels, Raumlabor and a group of artists opened the Parc Grisar to the community for one week and organized a wood workshop and a bike building workshop.