ÏMA Design Village is a design community utopia. Located in a massive brick building in the heart of Kreuzberg, ÏMA is the brainchild of Marina Ostrowski, a Russian-born brand specialist, and Eyal Burstein, an Israeli designer and one half of the collective, Beta Tank.

The two, with help from Burstein’s mother (the building’s owner and project namesake—”ïma” is Hebrew for mother), have built up an impressive multifaceted space. With usable space ranging from private offices to exhibition space, desk-shares to a concept store, artist studios to a coffee shop and 22 fully equipped loft apartments, for short and long stays, ÏMA truly feels like a small village.

With so many creative elements to manage, Burstein and Ostrowski are surprisingly relaxed—perhaps because the studios are nearly all rented and the apartments, fully booked—demonstrative of Burstein’s theory that the project is “future proof.”