Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig | GUSTAV DÜSING

The new Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University Braunschweig is an open space concept designed to accommodate various student activities. The concept follows the principle of a superstructure that allows the user to change and reconfigure the floor plan of the building to meet the ever-changing needs in a rapidly evolving campus context. The high degree of flexibility in the floor plan makes the pavilion ephemeral and therefore responsive, ensuring its enduring relevance as a new emerging campus typology.

The building is designed as a structure of slender steel columns and beams with wooden platforms and is completely dismountable. Following the principle of “design for disassembly”, the structure can be recycled as a whole and rebuilt in a different form at another location. The building fits into the existing infrastructure and is a social hub with workspaces ranging from a communicative open area on the ground floor to intimate and individual learning islands on the upper floor, each with its own entrance. A series of interconnecting balconies interweave the building with the exterior, creating additional outdoor workspaces.

Architects: Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke (Berlin, Deutschland)

Structural engineering: Knippers Helbig Ingenieure

Construction manager: iwb ingenieure

Fire consulting: Dehne Kruse Branschutzingenieure

Building physics: energydesign

Photography: Iwan Baan, Lemmart, Leonhard Clemens