MAUER

Since the reunification of Germany, Berlin has become home to a community of international street artists. Our design concept, Mauer, explores the possibilities of combining a residential space and a public art space. We aim to integrate Mauer as part of the Berlin Public Art Tour with other famous street arts such as The Lads, Hour Glass, and Pink Man etc. This trail of public street art will offer tourists and the public a taste of the city’s creative side.

For the design of Mauer, we choose to orientate our buildings inwards towards a central courtyard instead of facing the graffiti. The back walls of the residential blocks then become additional urban canvases for local artists’ interventions, injecting public art space back into the city. The public is given free rein to paint their creativity onto these walls. And every few months, student residents will curate this graffiti before it is painted over to make way for a new wave of artworks, celebrating the transient nature of street-art, the uncertainty and fleeting moments shared in such ordinary spaces. The documented artworks will serve as a work-in-progress that would eventually culminate into the evolution of Berlin Art-scape that is shaped by its political and social forces.

TYPOLOGY: Residential

PROGRAM: Student Housing

LOCATION: Berlin, Germany

YEAR: 2017

STATUS: Concept

FINALIST

ARCHmedium International Design Competition 2017

Tan Yong Kiat