REVIEW 2018

22quadrat is an interdisciplinary studio that combines the potential of storytelling with that of architecture.

Mr. Patrick Voigt is fascinated by the fact that very few things are repeated in his everyday life. Every project is as different as its clients and project partners. Therefore, he can draw from his interdisciplinary approach and put together the appropriate forms of expression individually - whether it is an artistic position, an interior design or an orientation system. Everything is connected through the stories that 22quadrat tells about forms of expression. This is another point that fascinates and makes him happy: that he writes stories and is allowed to share them with people.

And as a third point, he loves the variety that his work offers. Sometimes he writes, sometimes he draws, sometimes he constructs. 22quadrat implements most of its projects itself, which means that the company is sometimes a construction company and sometimes a site manager. He and his employees go out to dinner with the board of directors as well as with the guys from the construction site. They simply take part in life and are allowed to enjoy their diversity every day.

One of the largest projects that 22quadrat has implemented so far is the "adaption" project for Union Investment. It includes an orientation system that extends over 21 floors, 17 complex spatial graphics and an exhibition design that also extends over 21 floors.

But the "impulse" project presented in the lecture at the ABC Architects' Day was also one of the most beautiful projects, as the company was able to use the architectural medium - the brick - to place a work in space that is an essential part of the architecture. Since 22quadrat always aims to merge our work with architecture, it was a wonderful feeling to see this fusion become reality for the first time.

Mr. Voigt was enthusiastic about the likeable people he met at the event and the lectures were very well coordinated: the first lecture dealt with the respectful handling of old knowledge in architecture and the study of these currents. The third lecture linked the depiction of metaphors in architecture - and right in between 22quadrat appeared as an "exotic": "We linked the two lectures together because we put the old knowledge into a new context and transferred it to architecture via metaphors. So you could say that the series of lectures dealt with the respectful handling of knowledge and the translation of it into architecture - via stories. The organizer of the ABC-Klinkergruppe succeeded in doing this very well!" commented Patrick Voigt as the crowning conclusion.