Unbau works as a response to residential defiances of our time. Since the building sector is the primary cause of CO₂ emissons, not-building seems a plain necessity. At the same time we face a growing housing shortage while high amounts of dwelling spaces remain unoccupied.

Unbau does not see vacant buildings as voids, but resources for new ways of living, thinking, and inhabiting. Adaptive reuse becomes a way to restore rather than replace. Everything we need is already present: Materials, structures, atmospheres.

Unbau develops open systems able to transform and adjust over time. Reducing complexity and extending the life of what already exists means a decisive shift from the added to the revealed.

Unbau shows alternatives to generic development and mass-produced architecture by creating site-specific strategies in communication, architecture and visual identity – serving the physical and digital realm.