Marina Gros solves the task of designing a venue on Tempelhofer Feld that combines classical play elements with those of subculture with the choice of location – by locating her project on the eastern edge of the vast inner-city area, in the transition to the urban structure of Neukölln. She skilfully embeds the two-storey, consistently zoned and matter-of-factly designed theatre in the topography in such a way that the natural slope is continued in the profile of the two auditoriums: they open up to the stage and the expanse of the Tempelhof field and provide a view of the old airport building opposite. With this concept – to unpretentiously conceive the theatre house more as a kind of instrument – the author creates a low-threshold cultural offer in the socio-spatial context of the site and plays on the Tempelhof field without occupying it: an altogether captivating contribution – and indeed, as the author aptly describes: “A stage for everyone!”

The design was created in the winter semester 2021/22 at the Department of Design and Building Typology, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Elke Reichel.

Annika Beissner's bachelor's thesis impresses with its sensitive and thus sustainable handling of the context and the coastal landscape. Around the lighthouse, she groups individual buildings that adapt to the locally typical materiality by their choice, while at the same time revealing in their simple geometric forms that they are new. The almost village-like character of the research institute evokes an image of science that is not created in elite strongholds but is rooted in everyday life. Instead of focusing on monumentality, the work concentrates on social interactions, which can be very well imagined in the numerous courtyards and squares, and on retreats, which are essential for scientific work. Particularly noteworthy is the atmospherically appropriate style of presentation with hand-drawn landscape.

The design was created in the summer semester of 2022 at the Department of Design and Building Typology, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Elke Reichel.

Jascha Lenz's work convinces with a high degree of architectural flexibility and quality in dealing with a typological conversion. He succeeded in transforming a former machine hall in the middle of Darmstadt into a place of learning for students with relatively few elements, while at the same time preserving the character of the listed hall. The precise use of materials and colours as well as the offer of differentiated, flexible furnishings and learning opportunities make the design a prime example of how a sustainable and future-oriented conversion can work.

The design was created in the summer semester of 2022 at the Department of Design and Interior Design, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. ETH Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge.

For the new building of the regional parliament between Place Stanislas and Parc de la Pépinerie, Jana Bock developed a complex structure of one- and two-storey cubes based on a simple ring-shaped access typology, which docks on all sides around the plenary hall in the centre of the complex and which interlocks with the prominent urban context. Transparent projections and recesses and atriums create diverse light and visual references between the areas of use and to the outside space; the materialisation as a filigree and precisely joined steel skeleton building with surrounding glass façades is logical. Even if this concept of fully glazed building envelopes on all sides leaves questions unanswered with regard to energy options and the protection against and use of solar energy, with consistent openness and the offer of a view, this is an appropriate and convincing answer to the question of how a regional parliament should present itself in democracy.

The design was created in the winter semester 2021/22 at the Department of Design and Building Construction, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. M.Arch. Felix Waechter.

The group work by Judith Lauer and Maren Schroeder is impressive for its multi-layered and intensive examination of how the problem of food safety and the land consumption of industrial agriculture can be dealt with in the future. For the students, so-called “vertical farming” cannot be the only technology of the future. Their booklet: “Frankfurt Essbar?” takes the reader on a city walk through Frankfurt and invites them to actively engage with the city's history and possible location potentials for local food production. In the process, different scales and effect sizes are used, production methods are explained and multi-layered future scenarios are presented. Through their meaningful perspective and informative argumentation, the two succeed in convincing of their conclusion: “Frankfurt Edible? Ei sischer!”

The design was created in the winter semester 2021/22 at the Department of Design and Urban Development, Prof. Annette Rudolph-Cleff.