The "Innovative Holzverwendung und Holzbau Baden-Württemberg" student prize was awarded on 6 May 2025 as part of the "Drei Länder, eine Mission: Holzbau – weil Zukunft nachwachsen muss!" specialist congress in Friedrichshafen. The competition is organised every two years - the next award ceremony will take place in 2027. From a total of 32 submissions, 11 projects were selected and honoured.
You can find more information about the student prize and the award ceremony on the Website of the Landesbeirat Holz Baden-Württemberg
The Faculty of Architecture and Design is delighted and congratulates the students on these special awards!
Students
Anna-Maria Edlinger, Lea-Sophie Nitsche & Hannah Schmid
Project
The Flügelhaus in Rohrdorf combines sustainability, flexibility and tradition. Large folding-sliding windows open up the multifunctional building to its surroundings, while transparent PV modules and a water collection system enable a self-sufficient supply. The innovative half-timbered construction made of oak stakes and straw clay picks up on the traditional building style and integrates harmoniously into the townscape. As a meeting place, the wing house strengthens the community, connects the past with the future and creates an inviting and versatile ambience.
Poster
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The project was supervised by Prof. Jens Oberst, Prof. Stefan Zimmermann, Prof. Markus Binder, Michael Bertsch & Samuel Meile.
Participating students
Julain Kopp, Dilara Hamzakadi, Christoph Geier, Marie Jähnisch, Julius Kammer, Johanna Knop, Celine Müller, Milena Mutz, Hannes Ohorn, Tim Pfaff, Simon Sachse, Lea Schlichter, Selina Schramm, Paul Schroth, Katia Tahhan, Joanna Un, Henning Vogel, Clemens Wilhelm, Sophia Wolf, Valentin Wolf, Micha Stephan
Project
In 1995, the first experimental building was erected as a student meeting space - "Bau 4" - in the inner courtyard. It was later renamed "Block 4" and replaced by a new building in 2005. After 20 years, another new "Block 4" is now being built. All of the buildings were based on student designs.
Students from various disciplines were involved in the development and planning as well as the (partial) realisation of the new "Block 4" throughout. Over the last few semesters, various teaching research events have been held on components such as the timber frame and connection points, statics and interior fittings.
Topics
The building is designed as a modular, completely demountable timber frame construction. The components were largely made from calamity material (beetle wood) as well as glue-free and mono-material. Re-use material (construction tarpaulins) from the Stuttgart 21 construction site is used for the membrane roof. By the end of the year, the interior work will also be completed with a focus on circular construction.
Goals
Creation of a "glass research" building and a new meeting place for teaching, exhibitions and student life.
Interdisciplinary teaching research events with a focus on timber construction, ReUse materials, circular construction and the use of renewable raw materials.
Poster
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News article
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The project was supervised among others by Yannik Zelenka (HFT.Lab employee), Sebastian Baier as a lecturer, among others. Numerous other lecturers and advisors were also involved, including Prof. Heidrun Bögner-Balz, Prof. Jan Cremers, Prof. Heiner Hartmann and Prof. Peter Schlaier.
Participating students
Lukas Nemesch, Eric Stoye, Tom Weber, lnes Förnbacher, Johanna Hermann, Jana Hopfenzitz, Nicole Moser, Bernhard Neuwirth, Jan Richter, Maximilian Stein, Jakob Wetzei, Halit Yalcin
Project
In the summer of 2024, students initially familiarised themselves with the basics of traditional wood joints at "WoodJoints Reloaded". Taking the aspects of material sufficiency, reusability and deconstructability into account, the students further developed the wood-wood connections in order to implement them in a pavilion.
They developed the complete, digital planning based on the production techniques they had learnt for operational production with CNC*)-controlled joinery machines.
*) computerised numerical control is an electronic process for controlling machine tools
Questions
- What can we learn from the timber construction tradition?
- Which traditional and proven principles of timber joints can be transferred
to a contemporary application?
- How can traditional timber joints be produced using digital methods and tools ?
- What new possibilities does this open up for architecture?
- How do we build circularly and digitally with wood?
Goals
This pavilion was built by students themselves and now creates a space for working and learning outdoors. In addition to its functional and aesthetic quality, the pavilion also addresses aspects of reusability and resource conservation.
Poster
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More information about the project
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Building instructions
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The project was supervised by Andrea Buch (project planner), Sascha Bauer and Daniel Pauli.