Project
Köln, Germany 2006
The Herz Jesu church is located right at the centre of Cologne at Zülpicher Square. It has not been used as a parish church for years. In cooperation with local actors we developed concepts to convert the monument protected church building into a café and meeting point for young people using minimal building measures and flexible fittings.
Stolzenhagen, Germany 2006
In 2006 we held our first workshop on experimental building in Stolzenhagen. The participants, from the areas of architecture, design, craftwork and psychology, took part in a discussion on experiment in rural and urban building, life and residence. The group built a roof terrace on top of an empty stable building. This wooden construction serves as both a retreat and a lookout platform and is the perfect place for reading, sunbathing and picnicking.
Berlin, Germany 2004
“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.
Halle an der Saale/Halle-Neustadt, Germany 2003
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.
