March 5, 2018: finally, the workshop for our Iacobus+2018 project «Stadtlagerhaus Regensburg» has started. 58 students from four academic institutions (OTH, UDC, ENSACF & NUACA) will work together in eleven groups during one week at the OTH Regensburg in order to plunge into the topic of this year’s master project in architecture. They will be coached by eight professors from all four institutions. The project topic is the transformation of the existing Stadtlagerhaus, an important historic monument in the harbour of Regensburg into a center of culture and creative industries.
The workshop program of this first day was quite intense:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuhrmann, Vicepresident International Relations, Prof. Andreas Emminger, Dean and Iacobus+-coordinator of the Faculty of Architecture and Prof. Dr. Rochus Hinkel, all OTH Regensburg, welcomed the participants.
Mattis Broelmann, Head of Marketing das Stadtwerk Regensburg, Sebastian Knopp Clustermanager creative industries of the City of Regensburg and Bernhard Lutter, Head of Building management das Stadtwerk Regensburg explained to the students the setting of the Stadtlagerhaus as well as of the culture and creative industries in Regensburg.
After a visit of the Stadtlagerhaus, Prof. Dr. Peter Morsbach held a lecture on the history of the building monument itself and introduced the Stadtlagerhaus to the students. Prof. Andreas Emminger closed the day with a lecture «About transformation» and an introduction to the topic of the workshop.