Project
Herouville St. Claire, France 2009
The project "les Archivistes" is the search for parts of a puzzle that make up the history of a modern city. Over one year, residents of Herouville St.Claire participated in workshops with actors, choreographers, artists, writers, and architects, from which emerged fragments of their own imaginary City Archive. Herouville St.Claire is a 1960's "ville neuf" (new town), planned and built with all the urban resources postwar modernism had to offer. "Le Tabularium" now attempted to put the puzzle together. In antiquity the Tabularium was the place where inscribed clay tablets were housed. Our Tabularium consists of fragments of these remains on which parts of the city's history were engraved and with which each visitor can now compose his/her own story.
Hamburg, Germany 2007
Medium-scale foyer furnishing: too big to be furniture and too small to be building structures. Consisting of abstract black, mobile elements reminiscent of facades, city models, fences and blocks, the foyer area can be infinitely redefined using the elements of this variable installation. Surface graphics by G.Lacombe, Paris
Rostock, Germany 2007
“Silver Pearl Congress Centre and Spa” was a temporary hotel and festival centre for “Art goes Heiligendamm”. In appearance it alluded to the profile of the Hotel Kempinski, Heiligendamm, “The White Pearl”, where the 2007 G8 summit took place. It had a spa, a sauna, a golf course, comfortable slumber suites with a view of the sea and a security fence. There you could do what was prohibited in Heiligendamm: proclaim your opinion, demonstrate at the fence and relax.
Venezia, Italy 2006
A one-week workshop in the French pavilion of the Architecture Biennale this is an exhibition garden in which a biennale takes place early each autumn. It remains empty the rest of the year totally empty? No, it’s full of leftovers from past exhibitions, enough to build a house and all its comfort. Everything can be had for free in the Giardini: materials, furniture, water, electricity. The “Treasure Map” shows this hidden potential, where it is to be found and how it can be accessed.
Berlin, Germany 2005
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.
