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.

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

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.

Barca today is a modern suburb of Torino without any significant attractions for the young people living there. The project aims at promoting youth creativity in a place where the conditions of young people are difficult. The workshop “Cantiere Barca” established a space of commiunication, common activity and discussion with young people from Barca and Bertolla in their neighborhood.

The SPACEBUSTER was reactivated as part of the Festival of Ideas for The New City.

The Generator is an experimental building laboratory for instant, participatory building practices in public space. In Brno raumlabor built a Public Stage together with Students from the University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund and the Faculty of architecture BUT / Brno University of technology.

raumlabor installted the CROSSING PATH SUPER BENCH at the Public Design Festival in Milano. For few month, the CROSSING PATH SUPER BENCH ”institutionalized” an informal network of footpaths, right behind the train station Porta Garibaldi: An area like a piece of periphery right in the centre of Milano.

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.

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 for the neighborhood.

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 KNOT is a mobile platform for artistic presentation and production, inhabiting different areas of public space, and offering itself as an open space of encounter, exchange and experimentation. In 2010 The Knot visited Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest, stopping in each city for a few weeks.

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

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 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.

When we started to imagine ways for the tempelhof airfiled to develop into the future, it was still used as an airport. This no-go condition made it difficult for many to imagine this giant and perfectly centrally located field to become an organic part of the city. The strategy focusses on the first steps and the first five years, but suggests frameworks and strategic organisational bodies, that could drive the transformation process in the long term.