ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND RESOURCES

Studio Kempe Thill is the Department of Architectural Design and Resources in the Institute of Design and Building Theory in the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences. Together the professors André Kempe and Oliver Thill direct the Studio at the Leibniz University of Hanover. The Studio combines teaching and research about current questions in the field of architecture and design principles within the team and together with the students.

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HABITATS OF THE FUTURE - PROTOTYPES FOR A GLOBAL SOCIETY

The modernization and globalization process that began 200 years ago in the highly developed western countries has had an enormous impact on architecture. A variety of complex circumstances lead to the fact that architecture finds itself in an unconscious and creeping process of radical objectification and democratization. In this dynamic process of continuous transformation of society, the meaning of architecture is reduced to its absolute functional core: typology.

Any efforts to deviate from this base seem rather helpless and counterproductive. The architecture should therefore understand the starting conditions of our time as a positive and inspiring basis. A strategy of architecture as pure typology - de facto the objectification of architecture - is a possible way to still be able to practice architecture today. Our extremely pragmatic age offers great potential to imagine architecture primarily as an inspiring collective tool: intelligent, adaptable, serving the community in the best sense of the word. Herein may itself lie the potential of a slowly evolving general style expressing the hidden logic of our time.

Annual themes are derived from the overarching theme of future habitats and run through the entire teaching and research program. The aim is to use the knowledge gained from our work to create a collection of new architectural typologies that make current social developments visible and offer a perspective on an as yet unknown future. We are looking for an architecture that optimally serves the needs of its users, creates new inspiring forms of communities, and translates the vitality of the 21st century into yet unknown and powerful architectural spaces. Our research activities are directly linked to the respective annual topics. The work on the topic of typology, which also determines the teaching, is scientifically deepened and systematically expanded with the aim of stimulating and creating an objective architecture with an optimal relationship between quantity and quality.