Axel Timm — Team — raumlabor

Project

Urbanität in Bearbeitung

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
2021

Urbanität in Bearbeitung is an exhibition reflecting on urban development and urban elements. The exhibition at Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein hosted the work of 5 artists on the topic of urbanity and TU Berlin student projects from the course Obsolete Typologies. The main exhibition hall is organised around three objects: a tribune, an Hochstraße and a translucent box. The three installations recreate an urban landscape around which the disposition of the art pieces and the students´projects is organised. The intersection of the Hochstraße and the other volumes becomes the meeting point for citizens and visitors of the exhibition to discuss the future urban development of the city of Ludwigshafen, as well as the occasion to propose more critical development of the city.

Publication

Polylemma

2024

Jovis, edited by raumlaborberlin, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Florian Stirnemann, Anna Foerster-Baldenius, Hannah Lu Verse

Project

Instances of Urban Practice

Venezia, Italy
2021

We are happy and honored and thankful to announce - raumlabor has been awarded the golden lion in the 17th architecture exhibition „how will we live together?“ in the venice biennale. The jury composed of Kazuyo Sejima (president, Japan), Sandra Barclay (Peru), Lamia Joreige (Lebanon), Lesley Lokko (Ghana-Scotland), Luca Molinari (Italy), elaborated: […] for an inspiring collaborative approach that argues for participation, regeneration and collective responsibility, resulting in two projects that are a model for imaginative civic revitalization. This award is for all the people that collaborated with us over the years, it’s for a way of doing architecture. we like to send our biggest thanks to everybody that contributed and contributes to this fluid being we call raumlabor. together, we can change things.

Project

Next Library

Berlin, Germany
2018

The Next Library Conference saw the first time an international conference on the future of public libraries came to Berlin. Following the conference was the first berlin library festival. raumlaborberlin developed the festival structure, based on the International Space Station ISS. It is a temporary scaffolding structure along the front of the America Gedenkbibliothek with work and project spaces docking on along the structures spine.

Project

On the Road again: Spacebuster on We Like America Tour 2017

Chicago/Cleveland/New York/St. Louis, United States
2017

Exploring facets of the "American Dream" and seeking out new urban frontiers by transforming nomadic, transgressive, and transitory spaces, the Spacebuster was reprised through We like America in a journey of the American Rust Belt.

Project

FORMS OF TURMOIL

Milano, Italy
2017

FORMS OF TURMOIL Milano 03. – 09. April 2017

Publication

Hotel Shabby Shabby Buch

2015

Theater der Welt, edited by raumlaborberlin

Publication

ART CITY LAB - Buch

2014

Jovis, edited by raumlaborberlin

Project

Open Raumlabor University

Berlin/Darmstadt/Istanbul/oberweißbach/Palermo/Witten/World, World
2015

The open raumlabor university is a fictional institution offering workshops, excursions, and open discussions as educational formats. Founded in 2015, it builds upon a long history of learning related formats by raumlaborberlin at the same time offering a new framing for the many participatory and exchange oriented formats of the work. The ORU is part of a wider move to shift from project to practice and essentially seeks to open up a common space for exploration, improvisation and collective experimentation. It focuses on the curiosity and sense of wonder of participants, who will be encouraged to exchange experiences and develop practices together. The open raumlabor university is not fixed in time and space, and its structure and methods will vary with the context of each occurence. The ORU seeks to create a learning environment based on dialogue, deep collaboration and lasting relations. Educational interactions extend beyond the members of the university, to a wider network involving local actors as well as international contacts.

Project

Shabbyshabby Apartments

München, Germany
2015

Munich beware! The legend strikes back: Shabbyshabby Apartments!

Project

Black Mountain

Berlin, Germany
2015

BLACK MOUNTAIN: Ein interdisziplinäres Experiment 1933-1957. Eine Ausstellung im Hamburger Bahnhof in einer Ausstellungsarchitektur von raumlaborberlin vom 5. Juni bis 27. September 2015

Project

Transmediale 2015 Capture All

Berlin, Germany
2015

For Transmediale 2015, Raumlaborberlin have created a hexagon based, spatial structure that occupies both the foyer and exhibition hall.

Project

curo garden

Bruxelles, Belgium
2012

Curo Hall functions as the information center for Parckdesign 2012 festival in the west of Brussels. The outdoor space has been closed to the public during the past years. While the festival is running, Raumlabor reopens the space and invites the public to use and redefine the activities within the space.

Project

Bat Yam Generator

Bat Yam, Israel
2012

As the lighthouse is used already as a meeting place for the kids and for the elderly of the quarter and as there are workshops already held in a variety of subjects, what we would like to introduce there is a whole lot of experience and connections to groups within the quarter which could perfectly serve as a soil for intensifying communal richness and collaboration. One tool we are working with for achieving a stronger connection is a rather classical tool for architects – the building of beauty. In relation of what we have learned what the activities in place are about we introduce some quite simple yet effective means of spatial and functional improvements that make this location attractive. Wherein the private gardens, fences and divisions are put up voluntarily, the regulations drive the public building to create cage like atmosphere by the set of fences put in between each unit of a school/kindergarten/community center. In our proposal in creating an urban living space we use part of the built borders in order to create a more enclosed space in front of the house by setting up a permeable ceiling which also acts as a sun protector drawing beautiful shadow patterns on the ground. Several parts of the yard and particularly the sports ground in the back of the building are transformed and improved by simple spatial devices such as platforms, stairs, alcoves and espaliers. Within this scheme we propose to have parts of the structural members prefabricated and constructed by a company whereas all the rest should be done within a public building workshop particularly including nowadays users as well as interested new participants of the quarter thus making it their “own” space, building up a strong connection and stake holdership which produces as well responsibility toward the site, joy and belief.

Project

100 SPACES

Reggio Emilia, Italy
2012

We understand the Loris Malaguzzi Center as a strip of collective experience. Following that logic with the Reggio school enlargement, we propose scenarios of different evolutionary speeds which rely on our belief in the quality of participative collective exchange of all involved stakeholders, developing within the bends of this process of education and experiment.