Unlike last year, however, students were able to carry out their work in-person during the semester under strict while strictly adhering to hygiene regulations. As always, the project results cover a wide thematic and geographical spectrum that reflects range of tasks that future architects and urban planners are expected to carry out.

Students from the MediaArchitecture programme, for instance, designed their »Wunderkammer 4.0« to display the Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha’s collections in a temporary pavilion that carries on the traditional idea of the Baroque Wunderkammer in a modular construction.

Gotha is also the site of the expansion of the »Archiv Friedenstein Gotha« research library’s historical collection. The projects present contemporary spaces for storing and communicating knowledge through a spatial network of various sites for reading, researching and communicating.

The design project »Klar zur Wende« architecturally relocates the Beiloch Sailing Club’s property in the Saale-Orla region of southern Thuringia into the present by examining traditional images of the »rural«. Sustainable construction was an important consideration for this.

Within the context of the status of research on suburban spaces, demographic shifts, rural areas and declining populations, »StadtLand-Suburbia: Einfamilienhausgebiete in Greiz: Stadtplanung« presents approaches and courses of action for dealing with single-family home areas.

Students address the issue of energy and mobility transition as well as climate adaptation in rural and settlement areas in the »KlimaLANDWerther« project. Focussing on the municipality of Werther in the Nordhausen area, students have come up with visions for a sustainable and liveable KlimaLAND.

The »EASY CYCLER ... born to ride wild« project, among others, goes beyond the Thuringian borders. This project focusses on potential improvements to Hamburg’s cycling path network based on minimal material use, modular construction, sustainable and easily adaptable long-distance cycling paths and transitions to public transport systems. 

»Theaterräume: Von Buenos Aires über Istanbul nach Weimar. Gera. Jena« draws an arc that reaches all the way to South America. Linking theatre-specific and urbanistic approaches, the project presents designs for a theatre of the future that opens up new approaches for the social diversity of tomorrow.

International perspectives are the subject of »Wachstum.Rückzug.Erneuerung - Stadterneuerung in Genua im Lichte der Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte«. In this project, planning proposals have emerged for sustainably enriching the renewal programme of an urban district in the northern Italian port city.

Digital Presentations
starting Thursday, 10 February 2022, 5 pm
www.uni-weimar.de/go4spring

In addition to the online platform, models, posters and QR codes for a deeper look at individual projects can be found in selected university campus building windows.

For further information, or if you would like to arrange contact with those involved in individual projects, please contact Gabriela Oroz, Marketing Manager, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, by phone:  +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 31 15 or e-mail: gabriela.oroz[at]uni-weimar.de