• • uncube's editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer, Rob Wilson and Fiona Shipwright; editorial assistance: George Kafka; graphic design: Lena Giovanazzi, graphic assistance Janar Siniloo.
    
    uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany's most-read online portal covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.

  Humans tend to be compulsive hoarders. In fact so much so that one wonders whether the architecture profession was driven not so much by the issue of shelter as the search for a solution to that very important question: where can I put all my stuff? We hang on to so much, allowing it to litter up our lives and our planet in the process – all because we think we might need it sometime.

   

  Our “stuff” becomes more of an issue in an age where many tend to prefer their environments to look clean, refined and, above all, empty. We still can’t bear to throw anything away – but don’t want to see it cluttering up our space either. So we squirrel away our physical objects in cupboards and self-storage and pack our data objects away in the “cloud”. 

   

  Unless of course we’re talking about art, because here the interest in the archives and wunderkammers of art storage has made a dramatic return: all of a sudden what remains hidden in the cupboard seems far more interesting than what we are served up in display.

   

  Welcome to the uncube Storage issue!

   

  Please tidy up when you are done.

   

  The editors

  Cover image: Photo: Josef Shulz

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  A Little Bit of Order

  Sophie Lovell talks to Eero Koivisto of Claesson Koivisto Rune

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Caging the Beast

  Keeping Chernobyl leakproof

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Frankfurt Kitchen

  Emancipation through rationalisation

  Text: Rob Wilson
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Memory Palaces

  Architecture for recollection in the age of forgetting by Fiona Shipwright

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Homes for Things

  Self-storage centres for stuff

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Packing for Eternity

  Tutankhamun’s 3,300 year-old trunks

  Text: Rob Wilson
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Invisible Museum

  Elvia Wilk talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about outing the archive

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Systematically Stashed

  The 606 Universal Shelving System

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Lives of Others

  Tearing up the Stasi archives

  Text: George Kafka
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Lest We Forget

  Sophie Lovell & Sebastian Schumacher on the rise of the data centre

  Text: Sophie Lovell, Sebastian Schumacher
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Tall Storeys

  The ups and downs of the multi-storey car park

  Text: George Kafka
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Ex Libris

  Focus on national libraries

  Text: George Kafka, Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Our Friends Electric

  The Tesla Gigafactory

  Text: George Kafka
• BOOKMARKED

  BOOKMARKED

  Bookmarked

  uncube's favourite storage-related books

  Text: Fiona Shipwright, George Kafka, Rob Wilson, Florian Heilmeyer
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Shumi Bose, Jack Self and Finn Williams

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FURTHER READING

  FURTHER READING

  Further Reading
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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