Unit 12a is an ongoing research-based architectural “unit”, dedicated to exploring spatial experience, materiality, and representation. The practice engages in projects across multiple scales and disciplines, driven by a process of curation and investigation.

This platform builds upon the act of tracing and reinterpreting architecture, presenting a carefully selected collection of images that offer insight into the origins of our work and the future directions of the practice. We honor the weight of a brick, the story in a tile, and the grain of wood—materials that are invested with memory, craft, and time, shaping places with quiet insistence and enduring presence.

Wohnregal Apartments and Ateliers Morphologically, a stack of six warehouses in conversation with the contradiction between the seriality of prefabricated construction methods and organizational variability. FAR architects addressed the needs of the Berlin housing market, targeting the notion of what it is to “live” flexibly and having the ability to do so with a consciousness of affordability and pace.
Built using pre-cast concrete systems, Wohnregal re-appropriates the conventions of serial construction that were unaddressed prior: introducing flexibility and variety in lifestyles. Although the prefabricated structure entailed a strictly rectilinear form, the TT ceilings spanning facade to facade, free of interior shear walls, afforded internal flexibility, imparting discourse on the transitory character of urban life. A curtain wall of sliding glass doors envelops Wohnregal and, when opened, transforms the entire interior space into a set of stacked loggias, each with their distinct organization whilst revealing the consistent structural system. In contrast to the traditionally more concealed facades of the surrounding buildings, Wohnregal prioritizes breathability and transparency while challenging previous concepts of privacy. In its portrayal of a new way of life made possible by an overtly expressed structural resistance,