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Architectural Heritage Conservation student wins ICOMOS competition

Prof. Philip Kurz, Managing Director of the Wüstenrot Foundation, presents student Niklas Kohnert with the prize for the ICOMOS student competition.
Prof. Philip Kurz, Managing Director of the Wüstenrot Foundation, presents the award to Niklas Kohnert, a student of Architectural Heritage Conservation.
This is the poster submitted by Niklas Kohnert. The image shows the indoor swimming pool in Nieder-Olm with a large swimming pool and a colorful mural in the background. The architecture of the building is modern, with a high, vaulted roof and post-like elements.
Poster submitted by Niklas Kohnert

Niklas Kohnert examined the Nieder-Olm indoor pool.

The German National Committee of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) has awarded Niklas Kohnert for his semester project. Kohnert is a student on the Architectural Heritage Conservation | Sustainable Heritage Development master's degree program at Hochschule RheinMain (HSRM). His work on the indoor swimming pool in Nieder-Olm, which was completed in 1970, won a prize worth several hundred euros in the international ICOMOS student competition. The award ceremony took place on January 20, 2026 at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Semester project in the Architectural Heritage Conservation degree program

Among other things, Niklas Kohnert dealt with the significance of the remarkable folding structure of the indoor swimming pool in Nieder-Olm in terms of construction history. His work was produced as part of the elective subject "Shells, suspended roofs, spatial trusses - construction and form of post-war modernism" supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing.

The competition was sponsored by the German National Committee of ICOMOS, the Wüstenrot Foundation, the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Arbeitskreis Theorie und Lehre der Denkmalpflege e.V..