​AA Alumni Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke are finalists for the 2024 Mies van der Rohe Award

AA Alumni Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke’s project, Study Pavilion TU Braunschweig, is a finalist for the 2024 Mies van der Rohe Award. The project, which is a two-story campus building designed to provide student workspaces, was completed in January 2023 and is sited in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Their aim was to create a multifunctional and accessible space for all students, offering a contemporary learning environment that complements the existing surrounding campus typologies. The result is an open-space plan that supports a variety of activities, providing a flexible environment for group work, seminars, lectures and relaxation. The building structure is designed to be hierarchy-free to promote interpersonal communication and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange among students and faculty alike.

Gustav and Max designed zones rather than fixed walls in the interior to enhance flexibility, from double-height clearings to intimate retreat areas and presentation spaces. The primary support structure consists of a modular 3x3m grid, composed of the same 100x100mm steel profile. The floors are made from timber ribbed decks inserted into the structural frame and can be rearranged and replanned. Additionally, the façade is demountable, and the entire building can be dismantled and relocated, following the principle of the ‘future material depot’, in which building material can be reused, as well as entire architectural elements.

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Image: The Study Pavilion TU Braunschweig. Photo by Iwan Baan.