Marie Kamp
Nominated Student Award
„Occhio Espansivo“ – Utopie im produktiven Exil
Master thesis supervised by Prof. Meinrad Morger and Prof. Oliver Jehle
Candidates and Winners Student Award
Sebastian Krumm
Nominated Student Award
“European EnergyLAB _ Ein Innovationszentrum für die Energiewende des 21. Jhdt.”
Master thesis supervised by Prof. Ludwig Wappner and Prof. Andreas Wagner
Clara Süssmann
Prize winner Student Award
Clara Süssmann received the main prize for her thesis
“On a treasure hunt in the Black Forest – Clara mine mineral storage facility”.
The master thesis draws its content from a well-thought-out and newly connoted storage term, its regional function and significance as a treasury and identity bearer of a region, as well as its structural location and implementation in the form of a participatory, process-oriented, museum and public building.
The architectural expression of the skilfully and precisely worked through design shows in its different building plastic facets that the desired synthesis of a contemporary and sustainable culture of storage and preservation could lead to a legible and tangible contribution to a rekindled building culture in the Black Forest.
Ellen Remy
Prize winner Student Award
Ellen Remy received the main prize, endowed with 2,000 euros, for her project
“Society is the actor”.
The master’s thesis envisages the establishment of a cultural center with experimental and street theater at a run-down, unidentified transport hub in Stockholm, at the so-called “Slussen”. Based on the concept of liminality, which describes the state in which people gain cross-border experiences, she explores the special urban situation of this place in her master’s thesis and creates differentiated paths and interfaces with a hybrid structure of theater, cultural institution and transport infrastructure, enabling a controlled and casual exchange between passers-by and visitors to the cultural center.
Lisa Kahl and Damian Platten
Prize winner
This year’s award was shared. Both Lisa Kahl‘s and Damian Platten‘s projects persuaded the jury.
In her master thesis “Balneis Salus – a bathhouse in Berlin” Lisa Kahl explores the terms “amusement” and “regeneration” by briefly looking at the past and intensively at the future, in context of the metropolis of Berlin, and compares it against the backdrop of heterotopia. This timeless need of the metropolitan is considered in detailed and skilful developments in urban construction and building style, exemplified by a bathhouse in the city centre. In the context of the legendary Admiral’s Palace in Friedrichstrasse, a practical building approach taking space into account was chosen to account for this need. Therefore, the sophisticated way of settlement of the building is convincing. In addition, the complex cuttings and architectural grace of the interior and exterior design are also compelling. This shows perfectly in every way how traditional bathing culture can still be a special source of amusement relevant today even when included in the structure of a vivid metropolis.
Damian Platten’s thesis “Cloud City” is an experimental architectural construction within which both familiar and new concepts of work and home can be simulated, tested, and optimised. The hard boundaries of space and time disappear in the modern world of work. Digitisation has catalysed this dissolution. The renovated structure of the Postal Logistics Centre at the Basel train station, which extends across the track system, forms the foundation of the project. Basic building blocks like carpet, block, latch, and point derived from classic office construction are overlaid on this foundation, as well as a building infrastructure with facade.