Berlin-based architects Gustav Du?sing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany.
Located centrally within the campus at a junction of existing pathways, the 1,000-square-metre gridded structure was designed to create flexible and non-hierarchical spaces for students to learn, study and socialise in a post-pandemic context.
Gustav Du?sing and Max Hacke have designed a modular study pavilion in Germany
"The concept was to offer a new type of learning space that reflects contemporary means of studying, a 'countermodel' to spaces of hierarchical knowledge transfer like lecture halls," Du?sing told Dezeen.
"We think there needs to be more public buildings like that, non-commercialised spaces that allow people to spend their days in comfort," he continued. "The study pavilion is a public building where people are welcome to talk, laugh, and practice student culture." The pavilion uses a three-by-three metre grid of columns and beams for the structural framework
The pavilion's hybrid steel-wood structure encloses an open concept ground floor and mezzanine upper level defined by a three-by-three metre grid of columns and beams.
A fully-glazed facade wraps the perimeter of the building, visually connecting the double-height interiors to the outside, while an external canopy shelters a three-metre-deep arcade and a series of habitable balcony edges.
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