aac autumn workshop 2025
03.09. to 26.09.2025 on the Rainvilleterrasse campus in Hamburg 

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Description of Workshop Topic

This year's aac autumn workshop focused on how future campus space requirements can be met while taking existing buildings and property boundaries into account.

Large university hospitals are subject to constant structural and architectural change due to demographic, social and technical developments. This also applies to Cologne University Hospital.
In order to meet these changing requirements and ensure the future viability of the site, existing buildings are constantly being expanded, replaced or restructured.

Due to the location of the Cologne University Hospital in a densely populated urban area, there is also a need to meet increasing demand through redensification. There is also a requirement to treat the existing buildings with care and to plan in a resource-efficient manner in the interests of sustainability.

The concept for the conversion and subsequent use of a building on the site that will no longer be needed in future will be characterised by a dual focus on optimal redensification and maximum preservation of the existing building.

The total area extends beyond the building site to the neighbouring property, which was also to be redeveloped. The various usage modules were to be placed across the entire construction site, thereby optimising functional and spatial connections. The overarching goal was to create high-quality recreational areas for users, both indoors and outdoors, thereby creating a medical campus with a soothing atmosphere.

Description of Workshop Format
The designs were conceptualised and developed in international groups. In addition to tutorials and interim presentations, the workshop was accompanied by a public lecture programme. 

The workshop began with a excursion to Cologne in Germany.

Following the workshop, the results were shown in the form of an exhibition on the premises of the aac in Hamburg.

aac Workshop Team
Magdalena Weiß, Jan Stolte, Enno Maass, 
Annika Göttle,Anja Meding, Gabriela Hopf, 
Lina Wenzel

Tutors
Walter Gebhardt, Annika Göttle, Sona Kazemi und Anja Meding

Scholarship Holders:

Leticia Fernández Alonso, Yasmin Barros Laboissiere Botelho, Lorenzo Calabrese, Ela Dogan, Elian Felipe Delgado Espinoza, Manjing Fu, Juna Kiesel, Dolly Marshall-Stevens, Pietro Parroccini, Andrea Cristina Reigadas Terán, Florentine Schätzle, Bastian Sippl, Réka Szatmári, Lilla Vajda, Wai In Wong, Réka Zala

Guest Professors and Experts
Joep Kuijs (hammeskrause architekten), Ariane Wiegner (Kirchberger & Wiegner Rohde) und Urs Wedekind (gmp Architekten)