https://doingnothing.cargo.site/mobile-header-1 2025-03-28T19:19:58+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1089732279646215705892159826524/logo.svg https://doingnothing.cargo.site/mobile-index 2025-03-30T22:03:39+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1089732279646215705892159826524/logo.svg https://doingnothing.cargo.site/logo 2025-03-09T14:20:41+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1089732279646215705892159826524/logo.svg https://doingnothing.cargo.site/contents 2025-03-30T22:03:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://doingnothing.cargo.site/contents-1 2025-03-11T22:02:40+00:00 always 0.5 https://doingnothing.cargo.site 2025-08-16T12:43:25+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2276785583523645279029262951758/Kurfürstendamm 206 & 209 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2280290077552918034083138118990/Doing-Almost-Nothing.png https://doingnothing.cargo.site/preface 2025-03-28T17:50:52+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2276840401731455865777509770574/Site-Plan-on-Wall.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2280290077552918034083138118990/Doing-Almost-Nothing.png https://doingnothing.cargo.site/kurfürstendamm 2025-03-28T20:21:45+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2249813769721647965924906902862/Polizei-Revier-von-Berlin.png Excerpt from the map “Polizei Revier von Berlin” by F. A. v. Witzleben, from the “Atlas der Provinz Brandenburg” (1833—1839). Berlin. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/prehistory 2025-09-23T12:07:18+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2249844656064481269660074255694/Screenshot-2025-02-25-195502.png Figure 1: Kurfürstendamm No. 234 on the left, alongside a partial ruin of the same era with unused upper floors on the right. Source: Klaus D. Wiek, Kurfürstendamm und Champs-Élysées. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2249846091128936483894642222414/Screenshot-2025-03-03-203625.png Figure 2: The ruin of the Memorial Church, surrounded by newly constructed buildings, is flanked by colonnades and low-rise buildings. Source: Klaus D. Wiek, Kurfürstendamm und Champs-Élysées. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/dichotomy-of-ku'damm 2025-03-26T13:54:11+00:00 always 0.5 https://doingnothing.cargo.site/aggregate-and-adler 2025-09-23T12:07:18+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2249872226568173835955919529294/jpg.jpeg Figure 3: The man, the myth, the legend, the tycoon himself, Cevdet Caner. Photo by Bloomberg Finance. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/crisis 2025-09-01T17:11:00+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2249986639343897782845484442958/FUeRST-Berlin-KoHa.jpg Figure above is the official visualisation used as Project FURST marketing material. Taken from PROJECT FURST. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/brief 2025-03-28T18:10:12+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2249986639343897782845484442958/FUeRST-Berlin-KoHa.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2276821006492695374228168779086/Kurfürstendamm 206 & 209 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2280289096776429123093697799502/Phase-I.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2280307787368012743011876611406/Phase-II.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2280337004907696674538747471182/Phase-III.png https://doingnothing.cargo.site/precarity 2025-03-30T22:00:48+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2249986639343897782845484442958/FUeRST-Berlin-KoHa.jpg The text above originates from a preliminary exercise commissioned during the project’s second week—a speculative analysis of the site’s exterior conditions, conducted under the constraint of denied physical access to the building. Tasked with distilling first impressions, this exercise demanded a hermeneutic engagement with the site’s liminal state: its material decay, urban context, and symbolic dissonance within Berlin’s neoliberal landscape. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2250307879024871265262109074766/Ryuichi Sakamoto playing in Rikuzentakata Daiichi Junior High School Ryuichi Sakamoto performs in an austere earthquake evacuation site, the audience captivated on the cold floor. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2250315255490444716163899729230/StudioI.Week01.001-14.jpg The text above originates from a preliminary exercise commissioned during the project’s second week—a speculative analysis of the site’s exterior conditions, conducted under the constraint of denied physical access to the building. Tasked with distilling first impressions, this exercise demanded a hermeneutic engagement with the site’s liminal state: its material decay, urban context, and symbolic dissonance within Berlin’s neoliberal landscape. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/emancipation 2025-03-30T22:00:48+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2253157067873956790042301441358/50m-Absperrzaun.jpg WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2253163225729169987617402791246/Landscape-Choice.jpg The plants are meticulously curated not for visual spectacle, but as a multisensory intervention: their scent, seasonal fruit, and tactile presence dissolve the building’s monolithic dominance. Here, architecture recedes, foregrounding the intangible—whispers of jasmine, the unassumingly picked fig, the ephemeral act of gathering. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2253229397502129572973059122510/A4_Page_08.png A deliberate 2.5-meter recession of the construction hoarding carves out a liminal threshold—an interstitial zone that dissolves the binary between exclusion and access. This spatial incision transforms the site’s periphery into a social condenser, inviting pedestrians to linger, gather, or observe. The gesture critiques traditional site boundaries, reimagining barriers as invitations . https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2253230305432426136883480110414/A4_Page_07.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2253231343172460747488015820110/A4_Page_09.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2253523723678647418333228836174/A4_Page_03.png Luxury boutiques wield gilded interiors and monolithic mirrors to stage exclusivity—spaces designed to dazzle the select few who cross their thresholds. Yet what if we weaponized their antithesis? Imagine hoarding boards, those raw, provisional skins of urban transition, repurposed as radical invitations. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2253536451304868979417719121230/A4_Page_05.png The LV store, credit to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Slimark">Marek Śliwecki</a> . https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2253536534222983590742153635150/A4_Page_04.png Photo of Chanel luxury store, taken by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Slimark">Marek Śliwecki</a> . https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2278976973672360153920842376526/b74b8230d92901350de5005056a9545d.gif WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/plans 2025-03-26T12:43:36+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2253133870466094801775019566414/BFP.jpg 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. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2253134387989499789696490153294/GFP.jpg 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. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2253134561019959201092084311374/1FP.jpg 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. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2253134944490875005366243304782/2FP.jpg 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? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2253135192359775123801488368974/3FP.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2253135369264050790676088366414/RFP.jpg https://doingnothing.cargo.site/trajectory 2025-03-30T22:03:10+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2253245186734465047631831115086/A4_Page_01.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2253260261764210220477893190990/Building-Trajectory-Committee.png https://doingnothing.cargo.site/outcome() 2025-03-27T21:55:56+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2253245186734465047631831115086/A4_Page_01.png ViewsBusiness by Cartoon Movement-US. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2253544197148045762279571334478/3.png The elevation facing the main road rejects formal facadism, its skeletal structure swathed in provisional plastic mesh—a raw, unapologetic counterpoint to Kurfürstendamm’s polished commercial veneer. This intentional anti-facade reframes the building’s identity: not as a static icon, but as an urban threshold. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2253558822261702977349669496142/Outcome.png This drawing envisions spaces charged with the potential for unscripted occupation—a vision catalyzed by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s performance in that austere school hall, where an audience’s collective presence transformed utility into transcendence. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2253559403057440138094902125902/Outcome2.png The staircases and elevator shafts are introduced as strategic insertions—minimalist volumes rendered as abstract boxes in the drawings. Depicting these elements as simplified boxes rejects hyperrealistic rendering, instead foregrounding their potentiality. The drawings are not static blueprints but open scores. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2253559488779459848623188485454/Outcome3.png The monolithic structure recedes into spectral ambiguity, its edges blurred by snowfall. At ground level, the landscape is stripped to a raw, mineral palette—frost-heaved earth and skeletal vegetation mirroring the building’s latent stillness. In this seasonal atrophy, the architecture’s purpose pivots. Could its cavernous interior, now divorced from summer’s performative bustle, become a resonant chamber for collective ritual? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2253559624695070183715164792142/Outcome4.png This drawing envisions an architecture of ecological agency, where the ground floor is ceded to a self-generating landscape. By importing raw soil and relinquishing control to natural processes—succession, decay, spontaneous growth—the building surrenders its facade to the unruly vitality of flora. The landscape evolves into a living, breathing epidermis, its seasonal mutations becoming the structure’s true face. Here, the building is no longer protagonist but stage—a static scaffold for nature’s improvisational theater. Why design a facade when you can cultivate an ecosystem? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2253587448195857720937510479182/Outcome5.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2253591443354795716804780369230/Outcome6.png The series above unveils the vertical choreography of Strata I—a sequence of sectional vignettes that slice through each floor, exposing the building’s spatial rhythm. These perspectives trace a narrative of interconnected volumes, from the tectonic rawness of the basement to the diaphanous interplay of light in the upper tiers. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2253597874996584456377046803790/A1.Rev01_Page_1.png The staircase—a vertiginous incision slicing through the building’s stratified slabs—transcends mere circulation to become a vertically choreographed intervention. Encircling this void, polycarbonate panels form a translucent veil, their milky surfaces diffusing light into a spectral glow that radiates outward as a luminous beacon after dark. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2253601293362728755494056764750/A3.Rev01_Page_1.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2253601379841064973044434740558/A3_Page_08.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2253601519224663193993806751054/A4_Page_11.png By day, sunlight fractures through the polycarbonate, casting prismatic shadows that animate adjacent spaces. By night, artificial light transforms the void into a lantern—a nod to Louis Kahn’s “served and servant” spaces, where infrastructure becomes spectacle. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2253602354290320666751498855758/A4_Page_10.png Here, the process of construction is laid bare, celebrating the provisional as permanent. Why cloak structure in veneer when light and shadow can articulate its essence? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2278986313590926066393597486414/ViewsBusiness-by-Cartoon-Movement-US.gif ViewsBusiness by Cartoon Movement-US. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/rant 2025-03-27T21:37:24+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2278971093127050616421430469966/Comic.png Reality Check by Dave Whamond. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/references 2025-03-11T22:02:41+00:00 always 0.5 https://doingnothing.cargo.site/credit 2025-03-28T20:12:23+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2250199394442396798263727891790/IMG_20250130_162058665.png A group photo with the entire “to be continued” Studio I. Starting from the left: Basuoney, Kunal, Me, Alperen, Tobias Rabold (guest critic), Philip Rieseberg (studio master), Tarek Massalme (guest critic), Oscar, Kim, Ramsha, Alberto, Esther and Neil. https://doingnothing.cargo.site/page-shadow-left 2025-03-11T22:02:41+00:00 always 0.5 https://doingnothing.cargo.site/page-shadow-right 2025-03-11T22:02:41+00:00 always 0.5