As student residential blocks in jewelry transform.

If the "Baupiloten" move, approaching a house special kind of ugly and nasty schools functional buildings Motzen Berlin students to bunt. Their trick: The young architects can be distinguished from the people inside talking - and sometimes live to the rehearsal.

 

Rancid balcony covers, a corrugated asbestos sheets clad facade - the functional high-rise from the sixties does not just like a student dormitory of the future. Anxiety even in the interior: Gray rigid doors in the hallway lit with neon tubes. At the end of the barren gangs, the community bathroom for ten people, men and women mixed.

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No wonder that there is hardly a student in the dormitory courtyard Siegemund at Berlin's Tiergarten long endure. Many take a few weeks after the flight, if they have found something better.

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Student flats in the capital to compete, because a very special house is on. "We want to make a quantum leap from the fifties into the 21st century," says Juergen Morgenstern student. It should be the "Baupiloten". The group Berlin architecture student has a specialty of the architectural Aufmotzen to friendly habitats.

The students Donat Kirschner and Johanna teachers and their professor Susanne Hofmann speak at length with the residents. Instead months fictitious buildings that will never be built, designing them for the reality? and accompany the implementation of the first call up to the last screw.

Campaign against gray walls

Nevertheless, the work of Baupiloten with the everyday life of a normal architecture firms have little to do. Because the future users decide for themselves what the rooms - the students to exchange views with architectural laity so that instead of just seemingly omniscient from top to plan. As an "architecture from the inside out" Professor Susanne Hofmann describes its approach, "at the beginning, the human being and his sense of living."

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When Wohnheim Siegemund Court put the 15 Baupilot students a year deal with the everyday life: They lived for a weekend trial, wrote diary, carried out interviews with the students, it filtered "atmospheric terms". In an interactive simulation game were able to perfect their residents living environment zusammenpuzzeln. They wanted more sports facilities, more community facilities for all and even more positive feelings in their homes.

The Baupiloten have all this in a draft translated: By 2010, the atmosphere of the prison dormitory with a "common house for sports enthusiasts and workaholics", including herb and sauna facilities. The drab facade along should be a transparent, glittering in the sunlight "Wasserberg" bulge, in which students can climb. And the room on the eleventh floor could be sliding, depending on the mood of residents to Community and party rooms will be.

Childhood dream worlds

"If we are the fantasies of the user record, they identify more strongly with the place," says architect Hofmann. That applies even to places for social problems, which does not usually benefit from innovative architecture.

The Baupiloten already have some other architectural from the fifties redesigned. Even many schools and kindergartens were over half a century - and flat-panel buildings with little room for retreat to individuals and small groups. The Baupiloten repeatedly showed that by changing and fixtures from drab rooms suitable for children dream worlds develop.

So was the Berlin Kindertagesstätte "Taka-Tuka-land" from the barren panel to the home of the "lemonade tree." They got through asymmetrical fixtures and a seat caves Cursed character, as well as the Kita "dream tree". The flagship project is the Baupiloten Erika Mann School in Berlin's Wedding Problemkiez - with relatively few resources has been a long, desolate corridors a colorful fantasy world.

In Baupilotensprech the school now called "home of the silver dragon." Previously supported the 1915-built school, an educational Wilhelminian of intimidation. Today there is "Hauchsanftsein". Sun called the children of the pink and pink painted hallways, where the ceiling fluttering gauze strips from a feeling duftiges spread.

Kuschel caves instead of intimidation

In the next hallway lockers pink to have pushed the imagination loose coat hooks replaced. The young architects formed a large, on the whole wall drawn dragon wings. And indeed, if the children from the classes and their lockers assault with a Rrrrumms Open, then this really looks as if schlage a dragon with its wings.

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Folding Kuschel caves enter into another hallway to the children a retreat. "The courts are always very much in demand," says teacher Diana Pertuch. With manageable interventions have Baupiloten the whole atmosphere of the building changed.

"Since the Silver Dragon has been collected, the children much prefer here," says school director Karin Babbe. And so also the growing desire to learn. While at the school in the social spotlight Wedding more than 80 percent of students from immigrant families, gets about a third high school for a recommendation. Even so, the "Silver Dragon Worlds" by the federal-state program with the "Social City" award.

"This has implications to the whole neighborhood into it," says Baupiloten director Susanne Hofmann proud. Just as in the Kita-Taka-Tuka Country: Previously they had been half empty, now exceeds the number of applications available seats - "and nicer educators have also promoted."