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?

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

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….

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.

Invited by the „GLOW“ festival, raumlabor designed together with plastique-fantastique in cooperation with Designhuis-Eindhoven, the „GLOW-Lounge“ festival centre. A light object out of 600 crates. Unique in the Netherlands, for the third successive time the center of Eindhoven is the stage and podium for „GLOW: Forum of Light in Art and Architecture“.

The “Fondation Suisse” is the most prominent dormitory of modern times. To mark the 75th anniversary in november 2008 raumlaborberlin was commissioned to find a temporary solution for a recurring problem: the missing space for big festivities. In summer the >piloti< called terrace underneath the building would have been perfect, but in november it was too cold. We proposed to wrap the space with an inflatable, translucent membrane and thereby transform the semi public ambient to semiprivate. For three days the pneumatic hall gave home to concerts, speeches, dinners, a conference and a party.

To inform the public about Periferic 8 a temporary architectural structure - the Info Point - was built in front of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University. The architectural structure functions as a meeting and info-point of Periferic 8 and as a public space for discussions and screenings. It is not only a functional structure but also a specific object that serves as a metaphor for a Utopian place highlighting the necessity of public spaces for the community and acting as a catalyst for social awareness.

The ctiy mattress is an installation in public space. It is a triangular pneumatic structure, measuring 15 metres on each side. As catalytic object it is a platform for various actions. The over-scaled soft surface questiones our behavioural codes in public space, especially the physical actions of the bodies within the space. The city mattress is an experimental condensator for acting in public.

Construction work is going on at “Wonders of the Prairie”. In the eyes of the public a boat is built from pieces of wood, junk, and offset-metals at the Alte Feuerwache. A sign points out that raumlabor-berlin is building a submarine which will be sent onto a „dangerous“ journey on the Neckar and Rhein to Ludwigshafen on Sept. 20. At its destination it will be handed over to the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen.We are looking for ten courageous persons who navigate the vessel on the difficult journey and for persons who want to participate in the building of the boat.

An artificial lake landscape is emerging on the site of a former open cast mine in the south Lusatia area. The “Overland Boat” is a mobile lookout platform from which the construction of the canal that will connect the Senftenberg and Geierswald lakes can be observed by visitors and residents. The boat will be transferred to the most interesting parts of the canal’s construction while it is being built. It will be put into the water at a celebratory ceremony once the canal has been completed.

What meaning does the historical centre of a city carry and who has sovereignty over that meaning? Shortly before the demolition of Palast der Republik in Berlin, raumlaborberlin built a huge mountain formation in, on and in front of this controversial building. The mountain showed that even a rough concrete ruin can become home to people, their past and their dreams. Its size, grace and speed, along with the countless installations, performances and record numbers of visitors to it, caused a great storm within the political debate; a storm which unfortunately calmed all too quickly. However, this still remains one of the boldest projects on this list.

Spatial design of a congress on culture in a two-storey exhibition hall. Below: an interactive spatial installation made of thirty-three movable and useable spatial volumes. Above: presentation situation as a collage of typical trade fair fixtures.

This was an exhibition project in a former border lookout tower at Schlesisches Busch. We transferred our office into the lookout tower for the two months of the simulation game “Living in a tower”. Visitors to the exhibition were the clients; real-time design and model-making were used to discuss their needs in relation to living in the environment of this former lookout tower, against the background of its turbulent history.

“The orbit“ is a mobile, extendable spatial module which can adapt to its environment. As a satellite of Freiburg Theatre, it drifts around Freiburg, stopping at urban places. It communicates the theatre’s thematic tendencies to the city space and uncovers new urban places and subjects for the theatre’s work.

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 guesthouse was in the foothills of the mountain at Palast der Republik; a poetic venue for an overnight stay in a historicallyladen location; a meeting point for personal activity and experience, a temporary alliance; product of a design-and-build workshop with students from BTU Cottbus.