The initial brief by client for a temporary festival centre asked for a stage, a bar, some informal space and a clear visual reference to the Bauhaus.

This quickly led us to the probably more important and relevant question: What would a newly formed design school look like today? Which questions and societal circumstances would be relevant and which aestetics would this school produce?

After convincing the client to enter an open-ended experiment, a summer-school was initiated. Together with students from the local universities a design-school was founded on site in order to imagine, debate and build a school as the centre of the festival.

DIESE Studio designed and built the roof as a framework that invited alteration, tinkering and even dismissal. Together with students the schools agenda and values were developed and resulted in a spatial articulation that would house the theatre festival in parallel with the performance of school life on the theatre square.