practice profile

Kathrin Boehm, Andreas Lang and Stefan Saffer form a team of artists and architects who are interested in the existing dynamics between formal and informal structures that are imminent to our everyday life.

Their projects aim to explore the potential of urban public space in relation to individual expression and institutionalized maintenance. An integral part to their work is to collaborate closely with the users of public space and the governing institutions, which turns their projects into a developing relationship between all participants.

In order to articulate and address those issues within the public sphere they are developing different tools and strategies to initiate links

• between different interests

• between the formal and the informal

• between the temporary and the permanent

• between the public and the private

Recent projects include:

Mobile Porch, 2000
Urban Toy
A multifunctional mobile space to roam the public sphere, engaging on a 1:1 scale with the users and the governing bodies of public space.
www. mobileporch.net

Fitting, Firestation 10, Munich, 2002
A six months communication and design project, negotiating the daily needs of the users of the building with the formal and aesthetical vision of the architecture, leading to a number of long term changes

bb cube, 2002
An easy to assemble spatial structure for hosting public events. bb cube derives as a first prototype from a proposal made for Pembury Estate Hackney (Pembury Cubes, in collaboration with Nicoline van Harskamp).