Lecture theatre with a view

The four-storey cube, designed as a freestanding building, offers around 1,850 m2 of additional space. In addition to seminar and project rooms, it accommodates a lecture theater, a photo studio, the further education center and a "creativity lab". The new lecture building closed facades are designed to be load-bearing and consist of prefabricated concrete sandwich elements. The large- format window openings create transparency. The large panes give wide views into the surroundings and fragmentary insights into inner processes. Wide, padded benches in the windows offer retreats and resting spaces. Architect Christof Simon emphasized the greatest possible flexibility and openness in the building, taking into account the changing space requirements of a university. The seminar, project and office spaces have non-load-bearing dry walls, allowing for modification and adaptation. On the ground floor, flexible glass walls can be used to join different areas into a single surface. On the upper floors, the rooms are grouped around a central communication and lounge area, which is naturally ventilated and illuminated by breakthroughs in the floor ceilings and a roof glazing. Ceiling breakthroughs, as well as transparent door elements with side glazing, provide visual reference and communication between the floors and the individual rooms.