Bernd Schmutz Architekten

Together with 41 offices from across Europe we have been invited by Hamburg’s City Planning Department to prepare a feasibility study for one of 14 estates in Hamburg. The proposals will look at how the existing areas could be altered for both the demands and potentials of current and future housing.

We have been runner-up in an invited competition for a 1200 m2 market hall and event space in Hamburg, which serves an existing theatre as an external foyer to cater for the audience but also to host a variety of events. The building has been designed as a flexible space, enclosed by a light metal curtain to open up views to the surroundings of the listed building site.

Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Bethanien have asked us to provide new furniture for the public areas and reception of the exhibition spaces. The project which is undertaken in collaboration with Eva-Maria Stadelmann and Frank Joachim Wössner will be installed in spring 2019 in the listed building by Ludwig Persius at Mariannenplatz, Berlin which is now used as a cultural centre.

We have been invited to develop an anonymous drawing from Drawing Matter’s collection into a model which extends the original vision into a new format. The exhibition has been curated by Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld, in collaboration with Drawing  Matter and the Architecture Foundation, London. Our model and the drawing will be on display from 23rd March – 14th April in Cork Street, London, together with 80 European practices. Click here for further details.

We have been asked by Goethe-Institut New York to provide a design to reflect the cultural influences and implications of New York’s 1969 Stonewall Riots in the following decades in the U.S. and Germany. The exhibition design, which has been conceived with Eva-Maria Stadelmann and Frank Joachim Wössner, proposes a simple structure of battens and panels, assembled in a loose spatial arrangement as an open archive to open up new views and relationships. The dynamic display allows the visitor to enter the installation and therefore supports a direct discourse with the themes and contents. Construction is deliberately low-tech to reinforce the interaction of visitors with the materials used and to enable low-cost one-off productions at each of the exhibiting venues. The display’s flexibility reflects the size and characteristics of each space and makes every exhibition unique.