Doing Almost Nothing

W.I.P. by J.Y.Ooi


part i

  1. Preface
  2. Kurfürstendamm
  3. Prehistory
  4. Dichotomy of Ku’damm

part ii

  1. Aggregate and Adler
  2. Crisis
  3. Brief

part iii

  1. Precarity
  2. Emancipation
  3. Plans
  4. Trajectory
  5. Outcome(?)

PART IV

  1. References
  2. Credit

Plans





Below Earth Floor

Retaining only essential Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) infrastructure, the space is conceived as an acoustically tuned void—a mutable, unprogrammed volume dedicated to immersive sensory experiences. Its emptiness is intentional: a stage for film screenings, sound installations, or experimental performances, curated to evolve with Berlin’s shifting cultural pulse.



Earth Floor

The floor is sculpted into a terraced topography of soil, curated to host distinct vegetal microclimates—a living laboratory where elevation shifts spawn biodiversity. This undulating landscape embodies the scheme’s ethos of adaptive iteration, evolving with seasonal cycles and botanical discoveries.


First  Floor

Floors remain strategically unprogrammed—open fields of programmatic indeterminacy where future uses might root. Tactically fixed elements (service cores, mechanical nodes) anchor the scheme, their rigidity enabling the surrounding voids to adapt across time.


Second  Floor

Circular voids are incised vertically through the slabs, forming shafts that puncture the Vertical Schism—a tectonic rift in the building’s mass. What flows through these voids? Sound? Rain? Bodies in freefall? My grades when my tutor sees this?