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.

A mountain formation arises out of Schlossplatz, laden with projections and desires, loaded with symbolism. In its inaccessible sheerness it withholds any kind of use. It becomes a place of myth and legend as no one can traverse it. It is an object of collective exclusion, collective attraction and collective imagination. Time brings with it new approaches to the place. Tunnels are dug as its painstaking occupation moves slowly forwards.

A bar illuminates the foyer of this theatre and event location, the “Glashaus”. Longitudinal strips of glass form the front of the bar and the rear buffet, a modern counterpart to older glass brick walls. The new glass surfaces are lit from behind by LEDs, while the colour of the lighting can be altered on demand.

Industrial withdrawal has led Wittenberge to become a shrinking city. A representative site in the city centre remains unbuilt. Our contribution to the competition suggests planting a birch copse to close the empty space. “The Nest”, a lookout tower above the trees, establishes a connection between the town centre and the neighbouring Elbe water meadows.

“Leila M.” is a record shop, venue and meeting place for experimental music in Berlin-Mitte. The owners, Mathias Gordon and Alexander Scholze, were familiar with our “ Espresso Bar” from Halle-Neustadt and wanted their shop fittings to be made from recycled prefab doors. The space is divided into three large elements: a large stack of shelves for storage, a furnishing ribbon that folds its way through the space and functions as a sales desk and a DJ console as a listening point. Floor, ceilings and walls remained untreated, areas of colour redefined the space.

The concept of “Hotel Neustadt” was to turn a vacant high-rise into a temporary hotel. We transformed the abandoned business rooms on the ground floor into a temporary festival café. We had a palette of materials that included endless amounts of doors from similarly vacant prefab buildings, screws and some paints. We created a dynamic, meandering seating structure that winds itself around columns, extending the outside space, and is exclusively made of doors.

Trick or Treat? Young people built their own tree house out of an old Setra coach. The coach was gutted, elevated and extended. Foundations were laid, frames soldered, walls erected, stairs built; a little structure and a lot to learn. This project, which has since been removed, called for lots of staying power from both the young people and the architects.

The brief was to activate an empty lot in the approach path to Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Its craterlike landscape was to be adapted to become an “alternative public recreation area”. Minimal interventions would have produced open spaces and areas of retreat for bikers and skaters.

Development of a flexible, adaptable, processual strategy to transform a former cow shed into a “laboratory of rural modern living and working concepts” based on a modular system of space in space.

(All German allotment gardens are named after Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber) Lots of people dream of having a home in an allotment garden area; if only it weren’t illegal... “Schreber’s Delight” used gaps in the building regulations to provide a home for two people. The combination of a shed, a green house and a (life) sculpture make 45m² of highly compact, luxurious living space.

Moritzplatz was extended into the surrounding privately-owned areas of wasteland and declared public space. The three scenarios— a playing field, St-Moritz and inner-city forest living—provided a variety of experiences, leading to the generation of new urban typologies.