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morePlatz morePlatz was founded in 2007 in Rotterdam. The office is a continuation of a longterm collaboration of Caro Baumann and Johannes Schele on architectural-, art- and urban planning projects. As architects and urban planners we work on the spatial quality of the built environment. Our work improves existing situations, activates undiscovered potentials and enriches the city with new programs. Our expertise is based on the working experience we gathered at international offices in the Netherlands, as project leaders of innovative, exceptional projects and concepts in architeture and urban planning. The design approach is influenced by team work, flexibility, process and dynamics. Since 2007 we realized a number of projects in Germany and the Netherlands - the Cafeteria of the visitor center Hans Eisenmann Haus, the exhibition architecture for the 'Future of Tradition' at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the refurbishments of the notary house 'Vendu' in Rotterdam and of the Goethe Institute in Amsterdam. Lately we participated successfully in competitions in various international collaborations for housing and office buildings. In 2014 we won the Hafenspitze Zollhafen in Mainz and in 2016 the Hamburg Innovation Port together with MVRDV. Both projects are in development. Since 2011 we are present in Germany. In 2016 morePlatz moved to Berlin.
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RGB – ‘Raum, Geld, Bauen’ 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, Bauen [Space, Money, Building] Raum – is the site and the general context of a project. Geld – represents the ‘market’ investment budget costs, and profit. Bauen – is the hardware of a project, the built result. The statement of ‘RGB’ is that Space Money and Building 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 Johannes Schele 1993-99 studies of architecture at TU Munich Team Marta Koziol |
