Student Work

These days, the topic of eating divides society unlike any other. Apart from all the diverse trends, however, the communal, cosy togetherness turns every meal into a communicative event. Yet for judges and lawyers, high security requirements exist for specific times. In her master thesis at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Johanna Uhland focused on the exciting balance between communality and separation and explains her concept for a restaurant pavilion with very special requirements.

An unusual initiative started by the Hanover Protestant regional church is to increase the awareness for youth work and assist in providing newly designed premises for the adolescents of three parishes – this is the goal of the Jugendandachtspreis 2019 (AIT 5.2019 and AIT 11.2019). 16 teams of architecture students at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences participated in the competition for the room concepts of the three winning parishes. With their prize money, the designs of the respective first prize winners are to be turned into reality.

Every summer, the Institute of Public Buildings and Design of Stuttgart University organizes a one-week seminar with the title Writing about Architecture. In the process, the students are to learn to formulate their ideas on architecture in texts. In order to provide as concentrated an atmosphere as possible, this year’s destination was Castasegna in the Bergell Valley. Here the new-old ensemble around Villa Garbald serves as a study centre. The students were given the task of analysing the existing elements of the architecture.

The Jugendandachtspreis 2019 by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover awarded four parishes with a cash prize for the redesign of their youth rooms. Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences supported the project with a competition for students in their second semester. They were asked to use an element system to construct a room-independent piece of furniture allowing a variety of uses by communities without a youth room. We present the winners in the categories Shelving System, Screen and Modular System.

Designing spaces was not the only concern of the architecture students Philipp Vögele and Ender Cicek, they also wanted to fundamentally question the development and design of spaces. In their joint bachelor thesis they approached the process of architectural creation together with philosophical theories, conventions and symbols. They were surprised by the scope of this subject. Philipp Vögele describes their approach and own composition of spatial perception.

Exhibition concepts freely created by students frequently show very fancy approaches – and this is definitely a good thing! Sometimes, however, there is an actual client behind a task who comes with his real ideas and a restricted budget. To familiarize herself with this “reality”, Leonie Seemann from Coburg University set out to combine ideas which can be implemented and those which are far what is from ordinary. The result is an interactive presentation between tradition and modernity in China.

Under the project management of Sarah Pallischeck, 13 bachelor students of TH Köln travelled to the Omomas Care Center, a home for orphans and street children in Namibia. The aim of the excursion was – on the basis of an elective module – to implement the jointly developed design of a shadow roof on site. The project was realised with the financial support of the Foundation for Art and Building Culture – Britta and Ulrich Findeisen. Eva Maria Thümling reports on the design process and the experiences on site.

Almost a case study: In this project, 13 interior design students are all dealing with the same real hotel room layout of the Globana Airport Hotel at Leipzig/Halle Airport. With regard to the existing components, there were two basic approaches: To derive a room concept from a significant piece of furniture or to construct a piece of furniture via the detailing of the room. Pascal Fabian Rätzel presents his way from and with his concept "Aloof" to a "heavy valet".

The project task of "Ministry of Sound Dreispitz" included a fictitious usage concept and a spatial implementation idea for the former warehouse of Burkhardt-Jundt AG on the Dreispitz Area in Basel. The local institutions, such as RadioX, the Haus der elektronischen Künste, and the Academy of Art and Design (HGK) itself, are creating an interesting starting point with great potential to turn the centre into a hotspot for electronic art and music. Sarah Frey presents her interpretation of the play of and with cultures.

Sina Pauline Riedlinger and Franziska Käuferle, Master's students at TU Berlin, have intensively dealt with the subject of ceramics. For the manufacturer B.O.S. Keramik, they designed a new factory building at the company's premises in Velten and thought about how the company could position itself in a contemporary way. Their impressive design and in-depth research into the material clay also earned them the student prize of the Caparol Caparol Architectural Prize Colour – Texture – Surface 2018.

In this real-life student project, the task was to design in Wiehe Castle in Thuringia, which is badly in need of renovation, an appealing bedroom that was fully functioning, has electricity and water and also meets all the usual requirements of a hotel room. The students were allowed a period of six weeks for coming up with a completed construction documentation for such a room. Nikolai Gemmecke reports on what the experiences were that he made as an undergraduate with his fellow students in the course of this project.