Campus Emilie

The jury consisting of teaching staff of the College, representatives of the BLB, the city of Detmold and the Ministry of Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as practicing architects and engineers met at the beginning of October 2003. Of the approx. sixty submissions, the jury chose that of the student team of Birte Stricker, André Büker and Andrea Heemeier from the Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture as the winner. In its decision, the jury stated:

“The submission subdivides the new building area into two main bodies of different dimensions and different expression, but the same formal characteristic style. The laboratory areas are arranged along the building line of the Bülow Block on Bielefelder Straße. The main building, with all the remaining functions, is a detached building in the rear area of the lot. The main body height of both buildings, with their flat roofs, is oriented towards the eve height of the Bülow Block. This has a calming effect on the multifariousness of the surrounding urban environment. The main building is accessed via the campus. Its head, facing the campus and with no further structural developments, contains the common use areas – the dining hall and the library – in the right place. The extended dual structure of the main building is characterised by a central light bar with an open staircase. This interior access promises good clarity and a spatial quality adequate to public use. The geometry of the cube-shaped new buildings creates a reference to Bielefelder Straße and produces discernible clearances which are fundamentally correctly dimensioned. Traffic access via Bielefelder Straße has been correctly planned, both for parking and for delivery to the labs. The descriptions of the façade structure must still be rendered more precisely. The overall value of the work is its unpretentious matter-of-factness, which fits the architectural ‘tone’ of the Emilie Workshop.”