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A stunning recyclable space was the venue for Palomar5’s creative camp. The fluid white space served as the thinking site for thirty corporate professionals.
 
A site in Germany served as the canvas for Palomar5’s creative camp. Palomar5 is a network-organisation experimenting with new environments for creating positive innovations and empowering individuals to create and realise new ideas. Their camp is an incredible project that brought together thirty intellectuals under the age of thirty from thirty different disciplines to foster innovation outside the corporate environment for six weeks. For this Palomar5 approached architectural firm ZWEIDREI and interior designing firm 45 Kilo to create an inspiring, green, live-in work space for the event.

The required space was constructed inside an old empty factory building in south Berlin. The primary aim was to create an environment which would positively affect the participants and create a feeling of togetherness to raise productivity. This was achieved by dividing the space into private and public. Furthermore, the site was abscinded into three sections of singular rooms: sleeping box, working area and recreational area. The sleeping box was arranged in street-like avenue and designed to provide participants with their own cube, equipped with bed, lighting, storage space and a sliding door. Their design was intentionally created small, to encourage people to congregate in groups instead of staying isolated. Participants could choose their level of privacy by opening or closing the cube doors completely. The cubes were constructed without glue from recycled MDF which was re-purposed to heat the carpenter’s bio-mass heating system at the end of the project.

The whole design represents the motto of the camp; the recreational area, meant as a hang out space, remained undivided by walls. Constructed completely from recyclable cardboard, the working area was the highlight of camp. Its lofted white-washed walls served as dividers for different workstations and also as backboards for discussion on projects. The plan created division and privacy for different groups without cutting the space with traditional walls. The rest of the environment was open and full of natural light. The whole cube was presented as a great partition plastic with walls that could be either looked through or crawled through, creating a flow into one another.

After the completion of the stipulated six weeks, the ideas generated within were presented to 300 eminent representatives of economics, science, culture, politics and media. The participants came up with strategies and solutions for issues surrounding humanitarian efforts, the involvement of the media in social issues and communications technology. The inspiring design by 45 Kilo and ZWEIDREI provided them with an open and inviting environment to get their mind invigorated, fostering creativity for six weeks. The design was then broken down and completely recycled or re-purposed.

Text Compilation: Hema Yadav
Photographs: courtesy Rosa Merk

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