Project
Berlin, Germany 2010
For the 4th European Month of Photography raumlaborberlin realizes the installation. SOFT SOLUTION located at the festival center at the Berlinische Galerie. The installation opens up a dialogue between to appearances of a spatial structure: on the outside it´s soft, pneumatic, ephemeral on the inside sharp edged and hard. Which is the original which the copy? Is it a metamorphosis or a blurred reflection? While indoors the iconic object plays with the found construction grid, outdoors it acts as an attractor and an activator of the public space.
Roskilde, Denmark 2010
Hilltone is an installation at the Roskildefestival, on of the biggest music festivals in Europe, which functions almost as a temporary city. A scaffolding structure is the base of „Hilltone“ to be integrated with sloping wood surfaces to obtain organic forms. The area doesn’t offer any specific services but is a “crossing point”. It leads to other areas characterized by certain activities - music, food, shops. The idea is to create some recognizable points on the way that “advertise” different plots behind them. These plots will be made up of i.e. art expos, shops, relaxation areas or just meeting places and will be characterized by distinguished attributes. The main focus of the area will be the road in the middle though as a connector.
Venezia, Italy 2010
An exhibition architecture for the audi urban future award, a competition looking for new ideas for urban developments for the life in 2030. Invited architects include alison brooks architects, big, cloud 9, diller scofidio + renfro and standardarchitecture. raumlabor developed a compact metaphor on urban density as carrier of the competitions' contents. the presentations of the different approaches to the competitions brief are displayed in a happy labyrinthine structure, that with openings and doors allows individual paths of the viewers and therefore for interconnections between the teams' statements. the out-most spacial line is dedicated to the physical presence of the exhibitions visitors and provides spaces for relaxation and a spectacular viewpoint. this ability for user appropriation of the exhibitions spacial system can be understood as raumlabor's reference to henri lefebvre's definition of "space is a product of social (inter)action"*
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2010
raumlabor developed the exhibition design for “Zelluloid. Film ohne Kamera” at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt a. M.
Berlin, Germany 2007
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. this learning urbanism works closely with cultural strategies, giving away land for pioneer uses, creating testing situations for long term ideas and translating the activities on site into the planning sphere with the new tool of the dynamic masterplan.
München, Germany 2009
the urban strategy for a quite large piece of the central area of munich proposes a development strategy that incorporates existing potentials and actors into a long term time perspective. it therefore proposes a development in steps, that allow the current actors to move inside the area and potentially allows them to keep their places in the further future.
Hamburg, Germany 2009
Die Ausstellung “Seismograph City - Nachhaltige Strategien in Architektur und Städtebau” fand im Sommer 2009 in Hamburg statt. Der Ort der Ausstellung war das gut erreichbar gelegene Foyer eines Bürogebäudes, was für Materialwahl und gestalterische Möglichkeiten besonsondere Herausforderungen mit sich brachte. Wir definierten es als unsere Aufgabe, das Thema Nachhaltigkeit in einer Atmosphäre der Leichtigkeit, Eleganz und Zugänglichkeit zu präsentieren - in gezieltem Kontrast zu der oft als sehr belastend empfundenen Diskussion.
