At its first venue in Mittelweg, Agora divided and combined different spheres—food, work, learning and art—through its architecture. Situated in a former factory that produced buttons, it had opened a café and a permaculture garden on the ground floor, followed by a co-working space on the first floor and learning and exhibition space on the second and third floors. According to the five core team members, diversity was important for the place to generate cross-fertilisation. They thus tried to choose people who would dedicate their time to different things in the co-working area as well as in the other levels of the building, and they organised community dinners for everyone once a month. After the building in Mittelweg was sold to a new owner, the Agora team started to team up with new partners to expand Agora and search for a new place.

After Agora had transferred from its first venue in Mittelweg to the Kindl brewery in Neukölln, it faced considerable challenges involved with co-existence with their new partners under exacerbating economic demands. Consequently, they moved to the basement of the building.