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Böttiger Prize 2023

1st prize winner: Jonas Röhrig; 2nd prize winners: Ferial Uweis, Súeda Oguz, Miriam Nougaoui; 3rd prize winners: Milena Losic, Sophie Stifel, Fabienne Lehmann; Honourable mentions: Jannik Nieder, Dominik Dörr; Teachers: Prof. Isabella Leber, Julia Christ, Cornelia Baumeister

Wiesbaden Foundation and HSRM award Böttiger Prize

24.10.2023  -  In the summer semester of 2023, students of the Master's programme in Architecture | Building Revitalization and Transformation worked on concepts for the ‘Im Sampel’ housing estate. Im Sampel, located in the Mainz-Kostheim district of Wiesbaden, is a residential area dating from the 1970s, characterised by different types of buildings such as terraced houses, high-rise blocks and semi-underground car parks on large open spaces. It is one of a total of five experimental areas for sustainable urban development in the state capital of Wiesbaden.

On Friday evening, the students were awarded the (Franz-Georg-)Böttiger Prize, which is presented by the Wiesbaden Foundation in cooperation with RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, for their work on the reorganisation and interior development of the housing estate's spaces and buildings.

The first prize of 800 euros went to Jonas Röhrig for his work entitled ‘Im Sampel: New spaces, new identity, new courtyards’. He was followed in second and third place by Miriam Nougaoui, Süeda Oguz and Ferial Uweis for ‘Living in the Park’ (600 euros) and Fabienne Lehmann, Milena Losic and Sophia Stifel for ‘The Green Wave’ (400 euros). Dominik Dörr and Jannik Nieder received recognition and 200 euros in prize money for ‘Sampel im Wald’ (Sampel in the Forest).

Mastering complex challenges

‘Dealing with post-war modernist settlement structures, especially those from the 1970s, is an architectural task that is both challenging and topical,’ explained Prof. Isabella Leber, who conceived the project together with Julia Christ and Cornelia Baumeister and in close consultation with the city planning office of the state capital and the housing association GWW. ‘In addition to developing an urban and landscape planning concept for the internal development of the ‘Sampel’ area, which primarily included the creation of new living space and concepts for public use, the existing buildings were also to be further developed, remodelled and brought up to date in terms of energy efficiency and aesthetics.’