For the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Caramel’s task was to design a ‘refugee camp’, using a vacant office building in Vienna. Safeguarding privacy, as in marking a place where someone can rest undisturbed by external influences, was the first and most important subject of “intervention”. Starting with a minimal design repertoire the central criterion was that all elements can be rapidly dismounted and easily reassembled in a different location.

For the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Caramel’s task was to design a ‘Refugee Camp’ for 280 refugees in an 1970th office property in Vienna, managed from Caritas. Caritas is currently active in the areas of hotels, restaurants, recycling, trade and facility management with the objective of also solving social problems with commercially successful and sustainable approaches. The objective of all the projects is to offer work to people who have difficulty gaining a foothold on the jobs market. Caritas is one of the most active players in the area of helping refugees. This is another reason why the “Places for People” initiative contacted Caritas when looking for cooperation partners and operators. Representatives of Caritas and others met regularly with the architecture teams for working sessions in which they exchanged ideas, checked the feasibility of these ideas and determined the measures required for their implementation.