Wall in Translation—Experience hempcrete in the pavilion

An interactive installation made of hempcrete invites visitors to explore materials, space, and movement.

Wall in Translation reframes architecture's most generic dividing element as a social device for play and encounter.
As part of munich creative business week, Park, an interdisciplinary collective of architects, designers, and researchers based in Milan, and the Professorship of Architecture and Design at the Technical University of Munich are presenting a walk-in hempcrete installation in the Kunstareal. Wall in Translation takes the wall and reinterprets it from a fixed boundary into a catalogue of spatial activators: benches, conversation pits, jumping stones, a labyrinth, a stage, a sandpit. The result is a social structure that invites people to slow down, interact, climb, and negotiate space together.

The installation is built from hemp lime bricks, a composite of hemp shives and lime that requires a low-energy production process and can be manufactured close to the point of use. Hemp itself is a rapidly renewable raw material, making the system viable at a scale and proximity that conventional building materials rarely allow. The blocks were produced by TUM students in a campus workshop, and the installation serves as the first pilot of TwistBlock 2.0, a reusable construction system developed by architect Oliver von Malm and his social enterprise Start Somewhere.

Wall in Translation demonstrates that even the most rigid architectural element can be opened to creativity, play, and shared use.