claim has designed a fairstand for greenpeace at the ‘Natur 2010′ in Basel, Switzerland.

The concept was to produce a prefabricated stand, that can easily be assembled and disassembled by a few people. In this case it took 3 hours for the basic setup. The wooden boxes, transport box and exhibition table and wall in one piece, can be flipped open and are kept in place by the connection panels. The resulting wooden wall works like a pin wall or poster wall.

The boxes green insets can covert the boxes for diffrent uses. They can be used as a container, a table, work as a counter or a terminal station.

All the content was stapled to the walls to give in depth informaton to visitors.

The fair stand has been awarded as a “Sustainable fair stand at Natur 5/10″. Der Messestand ist als “nachhaltiger Messestand an der Messe Natur 5/10″ ausgezeichnet worden.

All photos copyright by Greenpeace/Nicolas Fojtu

Claim designed the new office spaces for Startbahnwest AG – a Zurich based ad-agency.

Claim has been selected to participate in the Ohrenstrand 2008 competition to design a flexible, transportable auditorium for “Neue Musik”.

Digital media and technologies managed to change the perception of space. On the contrary, they did not fulfill their promise on a physical level in relation to the body: in ‘scale 1:1’, the gap between digital speed and real world seems to shift further apart.
We propose an archaic setup of ‘base, column and roof’. Instead of using this setup to enclose a space, we try to convert the traditional understanding, in which a space is defined by its borders, and exchange it with a condition of fullness.
By utilizing flexible cords, spanned between two datum planes, it is possible to create an almost digital environment of instant connectedness (real-time force feedback), reversibility (Ctrl-Z) and permanence.

The default condition is a coordinate system of strings in the equilibrium of tension. This equilibrium is a place of inherent forces and possibilities.

This defined ‘stringed space’ works as a multi user interface. By means of physical interaction with the proposed setup, it becomes a laboratory of conditioned interaction.

By entering this multitasking environment, the user is inscribing his presence into the coordinate system. Additionally by pasting a ‘place-mark’ he is able to define a personal space. This space can be erased by removing the ‘place-mark’ or it can remain as an ‘impression’- a trace within a flexible territory, which is able to return to its default condition.

Moreover, this personal space has a direct visual and physical impact on its surrounding. It forces interaction and can be seen as a tool for negotiation. What is a generic coordinate system becomes a physical computing environment, a user-based design space. In this sense we offer a simple spatial condition directly reflecting our body’s emergence in space.

in collaboration with Büro Achter April / Michael fragstein, Marc Guntow and uvwxyz / Daniel Utz