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The Wagenhallen Stuttgart - a former locomotive shed from the 19th
century - is characterised by various construction periods, conversions and
war destruction. The four adjacent pitched roof halls have developed into a
cultural focal point in Stuttgart even before their renovation and have since
housed artist’s studios, an event area and a tango school. The former
locomotive shed can be experienced again in its original design and function
as a dynamic and lively building.

Born for the drying of tobacco and synthesis of a landscape intended for work, the ancient factory called ‘Il Castello’ is recovered for new uses, opening up to the Community as a court of collective knowledge, theater of public-private synergies aimed at regenerating the land over which it dominates. Respect for environmental values has led the intervention to develop almost exclusively inside the building, reconfigured in order to restore its semantic identity in the contemporary dimension.

4Linden as an architectural synthesis of the arts offers an ecologically designed and beautiful living space, which makes it possible to experience the return to nature and the connection to its natural cycles and life processes and thus strengthens humankind in his very own love and creative power. Putting this creative power into a harmonious and mindful relationship with nature and our fellow human beings can pave the way to a future worth living for our common earth.

Metakitchen is an installation that brings together 5 Romanian practices who tackle subjects such as mapping local resources, regaining the knowledge about the territory we inhabit and recovering historical recipes. They address fields like gastronomy, textiles, ceramics and building material production. When we, as designers, decide what is the raw material that will become part of the final object we have envisioned, we implicitly decide upon the way we use the territories we inhabit. 

My work is a vindication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I make a criticism of the global situation we are going through, a call for solidarity and social responsibility, but above all, to love and unity.

I have used flags as a graphic support because they represent values, collectives, organizations, nations...

I play with the ambiguity generated by my flags to arouse feelings of love and unity and to reflect on the absurdity of barriers, war and political conflicts.

How can an old folks’ home foster graceful ageing? The Avon project is all about pioneering new ways in managing ageing issues and caring for the elderly as active mobile members of society. LogiRys, which manages the Avon-based senior residence, has placed happy ageing at the heart of its vision and practices. At Avon, LogiRys is experimenting with a new approach to caring to seniors. The results are impressive. The eldest resident is an active joyful 103-year ‘young’ lady !

Diffuse Museum (DM) is a new methodology for the museographic interpretation of built heritage. It is based on the assumption that the best way to transmit architectural knowledge is through an individual, direct and conscious experience of space and it focusses its narrative on observation, dialogue and interaction between the individual and reality to produce its pedagogical process. 

The Scale of Imagination was a project of artistic and creative workshops targeted to a diverse group of local children from Nowy Port district in Gdansk, Poland. Through city funding the program was made accessible and free of charge. Weather permitting, the workshops were implemented outside prioritising the important places in participants' daily environment and enabling reconnection with the nature.

With the Plange Mühle Campus, a lively, future-oriented quarter is being created in Düsseldorf's harbour, where the history of the location remains legible: A medical location, a home for companies, plus a variety of catering and event areas.

The core of the area is the striking industrial architecture of a mill from 1906, which has been continuously renovated and converted over the last two decades. The acquisition of new infrastructures creates an unprecedented direct connection to the city.

Prinsenpark is a new sustainable visitor centre for a historic landscape park. The project brings together visitor facilities, administrative offices, a forestry depot and workshops in an ensemble of refined timber buildings. Large pitched roofs with V-shaped gutters define the identity of the project that meets Passive-House standards and demonstrates circular building methods. The project provides access to an area where nature, culture and recreation are interwoven into a new ecosystem.