Lukas Merkel

Landscape architect

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Before Lukas started his studies of landscape architecture in Hannover and Berlin, he first completed an apprenticeship as a gardener for horticulture and landscaping in Dresden. After successfully completing his studies, he not only planned his way directly into the chamber in record time with endboss, but above all into the hearts of numerous actors and city councils with whom he worked. This could be due to the fact that he likes to listen first and then think about it at least twice before he not only says what he thinks, but also directly develops a solution that has nothing to do with but-we-have-always-done-it-that-way. Instead, he is interested in developing non-places into free spaces with potential and soul - with a special eye on materials and their use in the cycle. He also enjoys being out and about on our various construction sites because he finds that watching an idea grow in reality is simultaneously especially beautiful and especially exhausting (his prosaic paraphrase for what others would just carelessly call "construction supervision").

Lukas is not only endboss, but actually also drummer in a band, whose name he has not told us until today, but about which we know from a reliable source that it is not so unknown and by no means a hobby basement combo. Since the band is currently on hiatus due to family offspring and the pandemic, he is instead trying to save a ship in Hamburg called "Pottwal" from being scrapped in his spare time together with a ship's mechanic. He doesn't know exactly what he would do with the "Pottwal" if he had the money to save it from its end, but for him the name of the ship alone is enough to include its preservation in his heart and leisure activities. In addition, he thinks up - exclusively in secret - advertising campaigns for useless brands and products with which he could earn a lot of money and become dead miserable.