Base¹

Space for New Work

In the north of Berlin, tucked away in a courtyard in Wedding, we transformed a 500 m² industrial floor in a yellow brick building into a playground for new ways of working. The countless big and small ideas in this biotope didn’t come from a single mind. Here too, we applied our principle of co-creation: we spun ideas together in vision workshops, debated them, discarded some, and then implemented, adapted, and evolved them step by step.

The coatroom, for example, now offers a warm welcome in bright yellow. The shape of this honeycomb filled with coats and bags was originally marked out on the floor with just a few strips of tape. Together, we cut the wooden panels and built the structure. No one knew which lamps would fit. But just like the plants, cabinets, and sofas found their way to us, the lamps fell into our hands and found a new home in the Base¹.

In the restrooms, you can escape into a wild jungle of birds, palm leaves, and a golden waterfall during a workshop break—or take off into the Space Cowboy cosmos.

Voices are murmuring, someone is moderating in the workshop space, participants are peeking curiously toward the entrance, and people are gathered around the coffee machine. Post-its are stuck to the windows. A herb garden is growing on the windowsill.

Whiteboards full of writing and drawings are pushed aside to make room for an audio massage on the cozy rug. In the quiet corner, someone hides behind headphones to focus on numbers. Behind the disco curtain, in the cabinet, someone is listening to the person on the other end of the line. The kettle is humming in the kitchen. And in the bathroom, a parrot is perched.

The spaces at Base¹ can be used for a wide variety of formats—whether for focused offsite workshops, action-packed trainings, creative design thinking sessions, or shared yoga classes, dinner nights, and dance evenings. Whiteboards, standing tables and chairs, flexible shelving stocked with materials for visualization and role plays, and a kitchenette provide the biotope where new ideas can grow and be tested, and where processes can be reflected on and restructured.

By Car
Located in the north of Berlin, Base¹ is easily accessible via federal roads B96 or B96a. Since Uferstraße is a dead-end street, the best route is to follow B96 to Wiesenstraße and then turn left onto Uferstraße. If you’re coming via B96a, take Wollankstraße, Prinzenallee, and Pankstraße, then turn right onto Schönstedtstraße, and finally right onto Uferstraße.

By Train
Berlin Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) can be reached in under 20 minutes via the U8 and then the M10 (change at Bernauer Str. station).
Just a few stops away is Gesundbrunnen station, where regional trains, S-Bahn, U8, and long-distance trains stop.
Nearby Base¹, the closest BVG stations are Osloer Straße (U9 | U8) and Pankstraße (U8).

By Plane
From Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) – Terminal 1-2, the airport express train FEX takes about 30 minutes to Gesundbrunnen station. From there, you can take the U8 to Pankstraße station or walk about 15 minutes to Base¹. A taxi ride takes approximately 50 minutes.