After putting his career as an architect on hold to fight the first world war between 1914 and 1918, Walter Gropius sensed the world needed a radical change, a change in which arts and architecture would play a fundamental role.

His previous ideas of what architecture should be didn’t quite make sense anymore. His new vision of architecture was one where all arts came together to re-imagine the material world, where craftsmanship would reclaim its leading position in the production process and where artists would find a way to imprint their soul and essence into rational, useful and beautiful objects that could be mass-produced following the ideals of Fordism and Taylorism.

It was 1919 in post-war Weimar, Germany. Walter Gropius had just founded the Bauhaus. One of the most radical evolutions architecture has ever experienced was about to begin.

The new 2021 Bauhaus Campus will be a space of creativity and vanguardism, where new concepts and ideas for the architecture of tomorrow can be debated and explored.

The impact of the new Bauhaus Campus might not come right away, the same way the influence of the original Bauhaus was not obvious until many years after it was dismantled. But one should always trust that, by pushing the limits and challenging the norm, we are helping architecture stay current and move forward, and hopefully, make the world a better place.

The current Educational System has been embedded over since the industrial revolution to “mass produce students who are treated equally, and are given standard curriculums in various fields with no consideration to their actual fields of interest We’ve applied these systems into buildings and spaces that look more like prisons, than learning units. The result generations of students who hate schools.

As the context affected by the rain for high percentage we made cooperative shade with the irrigation system to enhance the efficiency.

Bauhaus Campus 2021 

By:

Mohamed Aziz | Mohamed Alaa | Amro Morsi | Mohamed Khalid | Eslam El ashwah

Project location: Dessau / Germany
Project size: 4.700sqm

Status: Competition

Jury:
Addenda architects - Architects of the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, 2015
bajet giramé - Barcelona-London based practice founded by former David Chipperfield Architects colleagues
Montserrat Villaverde - Expert in historic research in the field of architectural heritage. Lecturer at La Salle School of Architecture

leku studio - Authors of the “Super Illa de Sant Antoni”. A 7.46 km² urban intervention in the center of Barcelona