2024-11-23T05:03:19-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150425707/oliver-wainwright-on-the-elegant-white-steel-and-glass-pavilion-crowned-2024-eu-mies-van-der-rohe-award-winner Niall Patrick Walsh 2024-04-30T11:48:00-04:00 >2024-04-30T16:55:39-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/34/342f520760753b4f4b48dcee332857d1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has won the prize for the best building in Europe. Longevity, permanence and a sense of immutability might be the ambition of most architects, but Gustav D&uuml;sing and Max Hacke would be delighted to see their building adapted and reconfigured, or ultimately dismantled and moved somewhere else altogether.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Wainwright reflects on the "impossibly slender" pavilion which was <a href="https://archinect.com/news/bustler/9798/university-study-pavilion-wins-the-2024-eu-mies-van-der-rohe-award-with-a-reconfigurable-design" target="_blank">revealed as the winner of the 2024 EU Mies van der Rohe Award</a> last week in an article that also includes the perspectives of the pavilion's architects, Gustav Du&#776;sing and Max Hacke.</p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7f/7fa8fab0cce490193202f22b50418190.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7f/7fa8fab0cce490193202f22b50418190.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Related on Archinect: <a href="https://archinect.com/news/bustler/9798/university-study-pavilion-wins-the-2024-eu-mies-van-der-rohe-award-with-a-reconfigurable-design" target="_blank">University study pavilion wins the 2024 EU Mies van der Rohe Award with a reconfigurable design</a>.&nbsp;Photo by Iwan Baan.</figcaption></figure></figure><p>Located on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, the pavilion has been designed to allow for variations of student activities within a flexible layout, described by the award organizers as a "counter-model to spaces of hierarchical knowledge transfer."</p> <p>Another winning aspect is the hybrid structure's ability to be disassembled and remounted. Individual components are capable of reuse in line with a principle called the "future material depot," which contributes to its role in the circular economy.</p>