Open Air Auditorium

10 November 2025

Competition Win—Bildungscampus Hoffbauer Stiftung, Kleinmachnow, DE

Our urban development concept was selected in a competitive workshop process for the redesign of the Hoffbauer Foundation school campus south of Berlin as the basis for the creation of a development plan. The process, which took place between July and September 2025, established the framework for the future development of the site.

The project expands the existing ensemble with a new sports hall built above an existing one, 120 new residential units and a parking garage that also houses a new sustainable energy hub. A reimagined landscape forms the connective fabric of the campus, linking school, sport and housing while transforming the formerly fragmented site into a coherent whole. At its centre a new open air auditorium becomes the social heart of the campus, a place for gathering, learning and community life.

Developed in collaboration with bächlemeid architekten and Lohrengel Landschaft.

Programme Distribution

Aerial view of the campus

Concept Model

Site Plan

Competitive Workshop Process July to September 2025

Client Hoffbauer Foundation, Potsdam, DE

Campus Area 6.2 ha

Gross Floor Area Sports Hall 1.900 m², Residential 9.830 m², District Car Park 8.200 m²

Idea/Concept Julian Bächle, Christoph Felger

Architects A KIND OF SPACE Office for Architecture, Research and Design, Berlin, DE

bächlemeid architekten, Berlin/Konstanz, DE

Landscape Architect Lohrengel Landschaft, Berlin, DE

People A KIND OF SPACE—Christoph Felger, Jorik Flohr

bächlemeid architekten—Julian Bächle, Martin Bächle, Karin Meid-Bächle,

Leonard Palm, Hazem Orsho, Sihasara Ravindu

Lohrengel Landschaft—Mania Lohrengel, Silvia Bachetti

Energy Consulting Drees & Sommer, Berlin/Stuttgart, DE—Kai Babetzki

Visualisations OUT of RAM, Milan, IT/Zurich, CH—Stefano Zeni

Courtyard Housing