Furnishing
BMW Motorsport Racing Environments

With BMW’s return to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), Felix Schwake developed the design and furnishing concept for the mobile BMW Motorsport racing environments. At the center of the project stood the challenge of creating an architectural setting capable of providing a clear spatial framework for the dynamism and technical precision of motorsport.

The back-office and working areas, transported from race to race, were required to meet exceptionally high functional demands: extreme durability, rapid mobility, flexible usability, and at the same time a precise design quality.

Felix Schwake responded to these requirements with a deliberately reduced formal language. Strong geometric volumes and clear lines establish a calm architectural order within the highly dynamic environment of motorsport. The design consciously avoids visual overload and instead creates a concentrated background for technology, teamwork, and organization.

The treatment of color and surfaces reflects the dynamism of motorsport without resorting to decorative effects. In particular, the interaction between clear geometry and restrained, precise color application creates an atmosphere of technical calmness and control.

For the project, entirely new construction solutions were developed in order to make the furniture highly mobile while simultaneously exceptionally robust. The objects had to withstand continuous assembly and disassembly processes as well as constantly changing locations without losing either their formal precision or their functional quality.

The furniture was not conceived merely as equipment, but as part of an overarching architectural concept. Function, materiality, and spatial effect were treated as a unified whole.

The project exemplifies a central principle within the work of Felix Schwake: even within technically and organizationally highly complex environments, design should enable calmness, clarity, and concentration. Architecture and interior design are not understood as forms of self-staging, but as structuring backgrounds for action, communication, and precision.

The project was realized in collaboration with freiraum. Münster.