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For the children's play area in the Atrium of Spore Initiative in Berlin we designed a furniture set titled Tactical Furniture. The intention was to create a landscape with the help of various pieces of furniture that can be combined with each other and arranged by the children themselves. The Tactical Furniture Ensemble consists of the Canal Table, the Pylon Bench, the Paper Tree and the Display Tree.

In collaboration with Sebastian Schwindt

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Inspired by corrugated sheet metal, these shelfs combine industrial aesthetics with playful details. The ZigZag Shelf features angled shelves, showcasing book spines and covers, while its cloud-like contours soften the technical design. Made from raw aluminum and set on castors, it’s both practical and striking. The compact variation, the ZigZag Sideboard, crafted from powder-coated aluminum, serves as a half-height room divider—perfect for smaller spaces. Both pieces are functional, dynamic, and uniquely versatile.

In collaboration with Sebastian Schwindt

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The RIO height-adjustable table system offers you a wide range of customisation options thanks to its on-demand production. With an extensive variety of carefully selected colours and materials, the desk can be configured to suit the needs of the office and its users. RIO's joyful and tactile character and the finely crafted details lend a functional lightness to any office space.

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Chimaeres  is a conceptual space that we designed as und.studio within the 4Rooms Project for Società delle Api  on the Greek island of Kastellorizzo. The concept is borrowing its name from the greek beasts, that are neither one creature nor the other but wicked hybrids. Every object we decided to place in the space is taking over not one, but a multitude of opposing functions. In the middle of the space hangs a chandelier you can climb up to sleep. A large object combines desk, cabinet, floor lamp and a flight of stairs. The object holding together a bunch of beach balls doubles as a chair while plants are growing from the rug. A mirror slides away to give access to the bathroom that lets you shower between functionalist corals and sea slugs in the deep ocean. Stepping out on the balcony lets you arrive in a glowing desert inhabited by artificial plants.

Chimaeres is a project by und.studio and was completed in 2022 on Kastellorizo. In 2024, a detailed publication on the project titled ‘4ROOMS’ was published by NERO Editions and presented at the Triennale Milano.

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For the DAAD Gallery Berlin, we designed a bench that can be arranged into the wildest seating formations due to its 70° curve. It reflects the concrete courtyard of the gallery and withstands the sun and wind. The bench is made out of a fifth circular curve of PE plate and two bended and galvanized steeltubes which are rounded with half-spheres as feets.

In collaboration with Jonas Maria Droste

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Monofolio embodies our vision for timeless, adaptable kitchen furniture that matures gracefully with its surroundings. By adopting a mono-material design with stainless steel as a „borrowed resource,“ our kitchens are exceptionally durable, fully repairable, and seamlessly reintegrated into the material cycle. The universal side-panel construction forms the foundation of Monofolio’s modular system, enabling flexibility for wall-mounted or freestanding configurations. Combining functionality with refined aesthetics, its reflective surface complements all interiors while maintaining distinctive in its character.

In collaboration with Jonas Droste & Simon Stanislawski

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Solio was designed during the pandemic, when live concerts weren’t possible and everything felt strange. To bring a bit of that concert atmosphere home, I developed this sound and light device . Inspired by classic stage elements like spotlights and tripods, Solio combines stereo speakers and colourful lighting on table tripods. It creates a mini stage for your device, perfect for streaming concerts or enjoying music at home.

Solio is a Ecal x Yamaha Design Laboratory project and was showcased at Milan Design Week 2022 as part of ‘Yamaha Sound Machines’

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One of the challenges of our throw away society is the disposal of recyclable waste. Besides prevention, we have to start to perceive our waste as a material resource and effectively sort it, in order to keep it in the material cycle.

Bæg is a hybrid between a shopping bag and recyc-ling bin system, made from recycled truck tarp by Zurich-based company FREITAG. In contrast to ordinary bins, the portable fabric bag doesn’t require extra bin liners.  A functional designed wall hook allows it to easily attach, fill and remove the bag. Bæg aims to change the stigma towards our domestic waste. Acting not only as a fashionable bin at home but also as a tote bag on the go to the next recycling point or garbage can, it includes a visionary scenario of implementing recyclable waste in our everyday life.

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Swivel is designed as a chair for schools and supports pupils in their playful movements and thus also their concentration. The Swivel chair uses the typology of a classic school chair in its aesthetics. Its unique character is based on the combination of rotation, realised by a specially designed plain bearing, and the possibility to stack it. In contrast to existing rotating chairs, Swivel thus offers the necessary spatial mobility for current and future learning formats.

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Vara is a parametric backpack that is personalized by the ­customer before manufacturing. They can adapt the backpack to their needs and body size.

To make such a customizable and parametric design possible, a very simple production method is needed, since every backpack is different. Therefore, the backpack is produced flat and only folded into its three-dimensional form at the end of production. This principle offers many advantages and a unique design. The material of the Vara backpack is Dyneema, one of the strongest and lightest fabrics on the market.

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Based on my research of  mesh wire fences, I designed an outdoor bench for public space. Bence makes the production logic of fences his own and interprets it into an element that thematizes communal living. It allows separating areas in public spaces such as parks without using a classic fence which is in its base representative of property and therefore power relations. Bence offers the chance of visually dividing certain areas while creating a seating area to symbolize an open and transparent urban society instead. Bence consists of straight and semicircular wire fence elements, which are attached to poles just like a normal fence. It consists of different grid segments, which can be mounted in a row like a fence.

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The kitchen has always been a place of social fellowship for me. Besides physical well-being, social exchange takes place here. The basic idea for Hitomi was to reflect both the cooking and the community aspect in the design.

Hitomi is based on a parametric and modular kitchen design. The bended aluminium panels with the internal fronts are the result of a fundamental change in the design of the cabinets.  Those can be set as classic kitchen units, free-standing or in clusters. Individual work areas, such as the sink or cooking area, are optionally bordered with aluminium aprons at the height of the worktop. All connections have been designed to be detachable, are explicitly visible and allow all components to be replaced.

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For the platform Contemporary And (C&) we designed the Center of Unfinished Business as a reading room original for the Ifa Gallery Berlin. The starting point was the question of how to represent the location of an archive while at the same time developing it into a place of encounter and deepening. From this, we have developed an open and permeable structure. The shelving system is a room-in-a-room and is used both from the outside and from the inside.

The walk-in shelf and archive center was also shown at Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2018)  and at Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019), Brücke Museum Berlin (2021).

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In the work Bastarde, made ­possible by a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, ­­ I assume a gradually independent production cycle of products. The influence of the manufacturing system on the design of a product increases and that of the human being decreases. In continuation of my bachelor thesis “Gewalt.Macht.Produkt”(Violence.Power.Product), I developed an analogy of the biological theory of evolution for electronic household appliances.

The Bastarde were shown in a solo exhibition at the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt 2014 and in a group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna 2016.