July 2025 - July 2026
USELESS Studio demands architecture that resists quantification. In Berlin, this is tactical. German building code (BauNVO) excludes stairs and ramps from leasable floor area—rendering them commercially unquantifiable. This thesis weaponizes that exclusion: a continuous promenade of widening steps and terracing ramps becomes the sole production space. Artists inhabit not studios, but infrastructure—occupying the spaces capital forgot to measure, and rendering the building permanently immune to speculative displacement. [Read More...]