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morePlatz morePlatz is a collaboration of Caro Baumann and Johannes Schele that exists for more than ten years. Our approach focusses on the usage of the city and it’s living conditions. Each project aims for innovation and development of spatial or programmatic qualities of the city. ‘morePlatz’ stands for ‘more – refined – space’. We are convinced that good projects rely upon good personal relations. As our work is based on a distinct approach and individual way of thinking, personal relations are of great importance for our office. We believe that a free and imaginative attitude in the planning process produces unforeseen newness. After eight years of working for Dutch architecture offices we acquired a wide spectrum of professional experience and comprehensive understanding of design, planning and execution of relevant architectural and urban design projects. Our experience is strongly influenced by the Dutch way of working which is driven by flexibility process and dynamism. The appreciation of this working culture is the reason for establishing our office in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands the professional world of architects is changing. The architecture paradise of the 90’s has sobered up. Recently the shift from public commissioners to private investors is a widely discussed fact. Thus the factor of profit, sofar disregarded in architecture, is gaining importance. How can a new practice study this changing situation and work with it in order to avoid complete surrender? |
RGB – ‘Raum, Geld, Beton’ instead of ‘Red, Green, Blue’ RGB – ‘millions of colors’ – is an additive color model in which the three primary colors Red, Green and Blue are added together in various ways to reproduce an almost limitless amount of colors. We transfer the idea of this model and its possibilities to the world of architectural projects. ‘RGB’ means then the three interrelating main players in architecture and urban planning - Raum, Geld, Beton [Space, Money, Concrete] Raum – is the site and the general context of a project. Geld – represents the ‘market’ investment budget costs, and profit. Beton – is the hardware of a project, the built result. The statement of ‘RGB’ is that Space Money and Concrete have to form a balanced constellation in each project. At the same time ‘RGB’ contains – just as in the color code – all the possible nuances and thus maximum individuality for each project. Financial aspects are as important for the realisation of a project as spatial or material qualities. In the case of predominance of one of the factors it becomes either an uninspired profit-oriented ‘building-business project’ or a building of bad and unsustainable quality or it will end up as only paper architecture. |
Caro Baumann
1991 architectural studies at the Technical University Munich practice
Johannes Schele
1993-99 studies of architecture at TU Munich practice Marta Koziol |
