Extended Application deadline: May, 25th!

For a few weeks, the Osthang (eastern slope) of Darmstadt’s Mathildenhöhe will become a site for experimental building and alternative thinking.

From July 7 to July 27 – during the Summer School as part of the Osthang Project – we are offering you the opportunity to take part in developing a temporary campus for the Osthang Project along with international artists & architects:

Application to Summer School Summer School: May, 15th 2014
Summer School: July, 7th to July, 26th 2014

Architektursommer Rhein-Main 2014 in Darmstadt:
Osthang Project: July, 7th to August, 16th 2014
Opening Weekened: July, 25th to July, 27th 2014

The teams invited by curator Jan Liesegang (raumlaborberlin) are experts in their field of work: EXPERIMENTAL BUILDING.
A mix of collectives & artists – with varying cultural origins – will focus an international dialogue on the theme of «collective and experimental building». They will negotiate the framework conditions in the run-up to the Summer School and perform some initial preparations. OP’re looking forward to:

atelier le balto (Berlin)
collectif etc (Strasbourg)
ConstructLab (Berlin/Paris)
Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokio)
Martin Kaltwasser (Berlin)
Studio Umschichten (Stuttgart)
m7red (Buenos Aires)
orizzontale (Rom)
Erlend Blakstad Haffner (Oslo)

The focus will be on COLLECTIVE BUILDING as an experiment. You get the chance to explore and improve design ideas using life-size models. Building becomes an active process that reacts directly to the location at hand; the unforeseen represents not a nuisance, but rather: potential. Thus, a situation is created that allows designs to improve during the process of their implementation. Consequently, atop Darmstadt’s world-renowned Mathildenhöhe OP will be pushing the limits of design while simultaneously creating a new public space.

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> via osthang-project.org