The proposed building structure, instead of building an object, sees itself as "adaptive architecture" that uses the new program to resolve the urban situation and to create a synergetic benefit for the library from the attractiveness of its context.

The new volume is conceived as an annex and connecting building, integrating the old library and bordering on the old Humanities building, thus incorporating the existing volumes and becoming part of a new, intended one. 

Our intention is to establish an entity between the library’s areas. The design is using the façade as a horizontal connection between the different library zones, providing a multifunctional working- and reading space for the users. The vertical connection between the different floors is established by stacking the makerspaces; the use of radiant colours makes these areas visible even from the urban space.

The library of the Goethe-Institute Prague is updated to modern standards, without loosing sight of the building’s history. The library is divided in three major areas: Reading room, language corner and exhibition area.

The site is located within a turn of the century district of Leipzig, dominated by small scale buildings with a distinctive roofscape. The new building extends along three streets and closes the fragmented perimeter block with one large infill building. The new construction thus has a much bigger volume than its neighbours. In conformity to the design regulations, the architecture has to adapt to the context, and therefore reminisces the tripartite division of historic facades. The design offers a modern reinterpretation of this principle; the colour scheme gives the facades a monolithic appearance. Most flats stretch from the streets to the courtyard and the floor plans are adapted to the deep building. Bedrooms and study rooms are north facing, living and dining areas are mostly south facing. Bathrooms and storage space fill the flats’ darker middle zones.  Big openings towards the courtyard provide sufficient daylight for the living and dining areas. The building contains 71 flats on the upper floors, commercial units on the ground floor and a basement car park.

Highlighting the beauty and biodiversity of the site‘s natural assets was the main concern while creating a campus in the forest. The “genius loci” of the site was retained in order to create a green experience for the campus users, by offering perspective views onto the forest, while creating a sense of place and enclosure within the campus.

The new Wien Museum melds the existing buildings into one ensemble. It establishes a clear structure for the museum complex creates visual orientation and enforces the relation between the WMN and the Karlskirche. The Volumes of the WMN are developed to accomplish an ideal city layout. Volumes are “extracted” from these ideal urban shapes to mediate between the city layout and the demands of the buildings’ functions. The resulting courtyards add to the ensemble’s urban identity.  Filling these spaces with public functions enables the origin of a lively, public space and strengthens the museum’s visibility in the city. The slightly elevated “Wienraum” will provide space for different activities and events hosted by the WMN, acting like a display window and engaging directly with passer-bys.

The site of the Central Philological Library is located at the interface between the boulevard Ludwigstrasse and the student-dominated district of Maxvorstadt, which unfolds on the back of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University.

Der Universitätscampus wurde mit möglichst geringen Eingriffen in die Umwelt gestaltet. Alle Universitätsgebäude gruppieren sich um eine Wasserfläche und sind über eine offen gestaltete „Learning street“ verbunden.

The volumes are oriented towards the inner and outer parts of the campus, while creating individual centres and a seamless rain free transition between the faculties. In our proposals the disciplines are not separated from each other but connected by one large porous structure. Interdisciplinary research projects are encouraged where the disciplines spatially intersect.

The necessary reorganisation of the Goethe-Institute of Bratislava provided the possibility to alter its character to a new, modern and open institute. The refurbishment of the heritage building aims at conceptually connecting the written and spoken word by the new interpretation and articulation of the interior spaces. The previously isolated reading room, located in the depth of the plot, in the new design is connected to its adjacent spaces and adopts additional uses. All shelves, formerly distributed throughout the reading room, circumscribe an open space located in the middle of the reading room. The room’s centre is freed from heavy furniture and can be occupied by the library visitors using flexible working tables that can be rearranged according to size and activities of different group users. Large skylights provide the reading room with optimal daylighting. Light and multifunctional furniture complement the concept of an open library that hosts various activates. A café marks the entrance to the library and invited the visitors into the sequence of library spaces which draw a new audience in and invites to read and to linger. The patio in front of the reading room is covered with new wooden flooring, expanding the library into the outside in the warm summer days, for further event usage and as library coffee place. Goethe-Institute’s character is altered by this series of small punctual interventions to a modern and open facility.

Hebebrandquartier is a new residential district, the residential buildings create a “hinge” between the low and dense urban fabric in the east and the large scale, detached buildings in the west. An alternation of individual buildings and perimeter blocks creates a lively and liveable neighbourhood. The perimeter blocks in the northern part of the district contain a mix of social housing and owner-occupied flats. Privately funded attached houses define the character of the southern part. An existing cluster of allotments separates the northern and the southern part of the district. Additional infrastructural programmes have been added to the new district, such as a small shopping centre, kindergartens, a youth centre and a community centre for the elderly. A sequence of public spaces defines the centre of Hebebrandquartier. These public areas form a central plaza with generous green areas. The central plaza as well as the allotments, are completely free of motorised traffic. A dense network of pedestrian roads and cycle lanes connects Hebebrandquartier to the neighbouring districts.

The Niushou Mountain Landscape Park reflects a balanced environment, which gives the monuments of the Nanjing Temple culture space and equally allows the visitor to enjoy nature. The information and visitor center is also the destination and starting point for visitors, who can enjoy a first view of the park from here before exploring the area more closely.

The idea of the project is to create a unique design for the Vietnamese German University campus in Ho Chi Minh City, which embodies the nature and qualities of a typical middle European campus. The campus in the city, which we interpreted as “the campus as city”, is not only a powerful image but also an opportunity in creating a new urban stimuli for the new urbanisation of the small hamlet.

The design for the new construction of the old-age and care center is characterized by the idea of ​​enabling maximum flexibility between living and nursing. Six pavilion-like cubes are linked by a central axis, which allows a meandering sequence of the rooms. The sequence of cubes along the street makes the large form of a nursing home appear fragmented and fits into the village structure.

The Marien Platz is a central place of conjunction in Munich. The urbanity of this place in the bigger picture of Munich implies that this is a well used and populated epicentre in the city, which at certain festivities and occasion can be overfilled by vast crowds of people.

The distribution level to the subway at Marien Platz can be interpreted as the underground reflection of the plaza above ground. The crossings of paths on the plaza level are duplicated on the underground level. Trails of movement and visual axes mark and engrave the usage of the underground space, which also is responsible for the spatial identity of this circulation and junction level.

In line with the zoning plan of the city of Potsdam and the developers wishes, an urban planning scheme for the further development of the interior of this large block was developed.

The design of the NJP Art Centre aims to homage to the oeuvre of the artist. The work of Paik addresses the ongoing evolution and perception of our world in a playful manner, necessitating a flexible museum exhibition space. The NJP Art Centre fills in the existing valleys of the museum’s park by spanning a grid roof structure over them. The appropriated space below the roof - the “petrified topography” - becomes part of the exhibition space of the museum. The tension between the Cartesian structure and the amorphous topography contributes to the identity of the museum. A characteristic of the museum is its screen facade consisting of several layers of partly printed glass with different degrees of reflection. The façade becomes an instrument for controlling the volume and quality of permeating light, in this particular museum that exhibits luminous objects of art.

The Chausseestraße is located in the densely built district of Berlin Mitte, but has very different developments on the west and east side of the street. These can be understood among other things by the historical development of the city and its properties.

The tenant development of the joint practice has its focus in the shared login and waiting area.

The Ebbinghaus was built at the beginning of the 1960s on a triangular plot at the beginning of Schlossstraße. The design takes into account the design of the building, blurred by numerous modifications to the building, and allows it to be resurrected in this important location.

In this conversion of a small ground floor in Berlin-Charlottenburg, it was necessary to implement the client's request for separate treatment rooms and a small office.

The property is located between Suzhou Creek and Hongqiao International Airport and has a strong and unique identity. The building is grouped like rocks around a large courtyard. The urban influences such as noise are kept out of the inner landscape.

The theme is to create a reverberation of the waterfront line - between land and water - in order to maximize the amplitude of the lagoon front. By establishing parallel and intertwining lines to the coastline, a tension between these is induced, resulting in zones of intense public attraction and leisurely activities. The main architectural element creates a new artificial horizon, which enables the citizens of Tainan to fully enjoy the waterfront by providing sun and partial shade, protection from high water levels while attempting to display the evidence of the historical past and to retain the given natural environment. The cultural promenade thus creates both a timeline of the history of Taiwan and new spaces for public amenities. The spaces adjacent to the artificial horizon roof structure are scaled to the dimensions of the user groups, generating intimacy where necessitated and open gathering spaces appropriate for their foreseen utilisation.

The facility of the Protestant Forest Hospital in Spandau is characterized by functional buildings that speak the language of their time and in addition define the identity of the hospital.

Like many remarkable and unique places in cities, the Nodeul island should become a significant place in Seoul and memorable to its visitors. The new district’s identity and appearance is shaped by two main public buildings, opera house and concert hall. In order to highlight Nodeul’s connection to the city fabric, Seoul’s urban grid is expanded to the island. Additional public and educational uses supplement the Performing arts centre. These functions help to sharpen the islands identity; their small scale connects the district to its neighbouring areas and provides a contrast to the large scale opera house and concert hall. These two uses are housed in separate buildings, facing each other in order to create a spatial connection while remaining embedded in their particular urban context. These two structures are set in a dense, urban fabric, their luminous cladding is widely visible and radiates through the city. Staged views on the surrounding city add up to a kaleidoscopic addition of images and perceptions of Seoul.

The new administration building of the company Fenster Keller Neuenstein is located at the entrance of the main street to the historic town of Neuenstein, in Baden-Württemberg. The typical field stone walls that border the fields and vineyards in this rural setting are used in the project to accompany the path on the property and to form the base of the new building. The extension mediates between the level of the street level and the higher level production yard, in line with the existing building the new building was designed as a steel skeleton structure with a curtain wall. The extension forms a delivery yard with the existing buildings.

The site is located in the impressive landscape of the Harz region, on the fringes of the small historical resort town Blankenburg. The project addresses and mediates in its context between the adjacent single-family houses, the East German prefabricated blocks and the landscape. The contextual diversity of scale is resolved on both an urban and architectural level. The program of the nursing home addresses the large-scale forms of the neighbouring East German prefab blocks, reinterpreting the volume and architecturally breaking up its scale. The housing units for the elderly add up, to form a U shaped building with an enclosed courtyard.  The buildings organise themselves around landscaped courtyards that slope down the hill, relating to each other visually and connecting physically.

Located in the city district of Berlin-Dahlem, the new Residence for the Canadian Ambassador to Germany reflects an important value in Canadian life: living in harmony with the natural environment. Given the historic neighbourhood context, respect for the traditional Dahlem dwelling is central to the design for Canada´s official residence. Built to showcase Canadian building technology, the architecture is shaped by the dialogue between solid masonry walls and light wood frame construction. Wood is the main structural element of the house above grade, permitting a fast and economical assembly. In addition exposed wood elements reveal the architectural character of the building. Materials selection reflects natural wood and stone, a fusion of German and Canadian aesthetics, and respect for the surrounding neighbourhood and its architectural vernacular. The residence’s presents a functional distribution of representational spaces, located on the ground floor. The Ambassador’s private living quarters are located on the second floor.

The renovation and expansion of the office tower of InvestitionsBank Berlin, built in 1970, is the realization of the first prize from an invited competition procedure.

The former IBB building was completely asbestos-renovated and then completely renovated, rebuilt and expanded. Connections were made between the different parts of the building and the entrance situation changed. The distinctive facade of the tower building reflects the new identity of this public institution.

The project reacts to the site’s complex urban environment. It marks the corner of the block, former residence of the artist Käthe Kollwitz and provides access to the courtyard of the residential block. The building closes the gap in the perimeter block alongside Käthe-Kollwitz-Platz. The communal garden, shared with the neighboring building, provides a new setting for the historic Käthe Kollwitz memorial. These measures impart to the locations character and transform the courtyard into a semi-private playground and communal garden for the residents. All 5 flats in the building are facing towards south and west. The ground floor is raised above street level to ensure privacy and to connect the private terrace with the elevated garden. The ground floor apartment meets all requirements for accessible housing or housing for the elderly. This project is part of the social housing programme of the City of Berlin.

Transformation and extension of the former Prussian Parliament building, into the House of Deputies for the City of Berlin.