Idea by
Jonas Huhn, Stephan Junglas, Benjamin Weingarten, Tobias Schafroth, Arne Schneider, Dennis Wollny, Jurek Werth with Florian Walzel
DIESE Studio
Call for ideas 2020
Bauwhat?
Bauwhat?
![](/media/cache/75/f6/75f6b3970899d50ac024ddd68990181a.jpg)
- Site-specific cases
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.
![](/media/cache/22/53/2253fdbcf6197bd20590f50c1a19d6c3.jpg)
Summer School workshop at the Staatstheater Darmstadt
![](/media/cache/40/9c/409cf1b710dcfe41d6faff65d37dd1e9.jpg)
Prefabricated roof structure of the festival centre
![](/media/cache/7d/4b/7d4b4eb817fcd11b772abc778019c16f.jpg)
Looking from the festival centre towards the Georg-Büchner Platz
![](/media/cache/a0/4c/a04c74c94e77295b430a41348b31b20d.jpg)
Summer School workshop at the festival centre
![](/media/cache/ee/3f/ee3f1e5bf4d017020f6bc9ad716ded99.jpg)
Installation of the Summer School in the space between the Staatstheater and the festival centre
Bauwhat?
Bauwhat?
![](/media/cache/75/f6/75f6b3970899d50ac024ddd68990181a.jpg)
- Site-specific cases
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.
![](/media/cache/95/73/9573159109cc690805849b9e80fe4edd.jpg)
Summer School workshop at the Staatstheater Darmstadt
![](/media/cache/bf/64/bf642c3afa558b1be0a0ed1b55372f2a.jpg)
Prefabricated roof structure of the festival centre
![](/media/cache/30/93/3093d0d72c01fb8dc56f82605b2d06a6.jpg)
Looking from the festival centre towards the Georg-Büchner Platz
![](/media/cache/d9/d2/d9d2fd5acc9d0829cf3829379d56e989.jpg)
Summer School workshop at the festival centre
![](/media/cache/ff/99/ff99494464fd46a73e9641eadf5a93b6.jpg)
Installation of the Summer School in the space between the Staatstheater and the festival centre