Dismantling the club, Episode III

Finally some real big amendment in perspective – beneath several decades of club culture we were able to surface white washed brick vaults pretty much everywhere in the old part of the building!

In these pictures you can see the first cleared areas but also some of the pollution that has been waiting behind bars to be unearthed for decades.

Background: The heap. Foreground: The Space-bar. Haha.
The club’s DJ area is more like a cockpit.
The bar in the southern part of the long hall: A solid steel beast from outer space

The lounge, where all the metal trash hangs out.
Area behind the large bar, adjacent to the lounge. We store mouldy wood here.
Curious sink! No one has been doing the dishes…
In some places the mould developed a personality.

Most of the mould is pretty much only on the surfaces of things, which we count as a good sign, generally. The air condition must have been pretty bad over the last few years ever since the club closed, although we know that there have been problems with the club owners and their fresh-air policy more than once before.

Promising: Salt crystals next to pipes mean that the wall is drying up. The source is unknown so far.

Almost all the hallways are getting filled with stuff for the landfill.
This is the first room that is clear of the formwork. The walls seem pretty wet.

Of course an update to all the interesting stuff we found in various cavities is bound to happen:

What we find behind most walls is probably where that special smell originates.
One of the really cool moments: Unearthing parts from before the Berlin Wall fell. Amazing!