JANUARY 2021: Since its “completion” in 2018, the INZE has needed a number of makeovers, which was to be expected with a facade made out of paper and cardboard. Over the last two years it has provided a surface for the local neighbourhood to express themselves on. These expressions have varied from the highly artistic to the simply obscene and deliberately destructive. These interventions, plus Berlins consistently inclement winter weather, eventually meant that the INZE received a new and more robust timber facade in spring 2020.
But this is only the most visible transformation that the INZE has undergone over the last three years. Many more things have evolved behind the scenes. The INZE has gone from a DesignBuild project, realised through the engagement and motivation of students and Natural Building Lab, to a self-governed community project, that exists and is alive without our involvement. This transformation in ownership is one of things that makes us most proud and sure that, despite it being “temporary”, the INZE will succeed and evolved for many more years to come - though we hope that we will always be invited to help with future makeovers.
Some of the INZE Crew (aka. Building Cycle Collective) meanwhile came back to the Natural Building Lab for the masters and are doing all sorts of great and optimistic things that make us very happy and proud. Us - would be the so-called teachers here that became great learners in the cause of the project. Actually the roles have become fuzzy.
