BDA Scholarship Ruhr 2022
Awarded architectural design for conversion culture
For the third time, the BDA Bochum awarded the BDA Stipendium Ruhr. The award ceremony took place on September 23, 2022 at the Kunstmuseum Bochum. The prize of 1,000 euros went to Sebastian Kahlmeyer (right) for his convincing, sensitive and climate-appropriate design on the theme of "Reanimation". With his design, he convinced the expert jury (in the background from right) Boris E. Biskamp, Markus Wüllner, Thomas Vervoorts and Arne Thorben Damm. The bachelor graduate was supervised by Professor Erhard An-He Kinzelbach (left).
Kahlmeyer is a bachelor's graduate in architecture at Bochum University and one of a total of nine students. They all took part in the competition last summer semester. Four made it into the pre-selection. On the day of the award ceremony, the selected students had the opportunity to present and discuss their work before a jury of five experts on the basis of plans and models. On the same day, the jury voted and selected the winning design of the BDA Stipend Ruhr 2022. Three students, Marco-Alexander Elftmann, Lara-Josephine Hanke and Robin Lennartz, received a shortlist certificate. Elftmann was also honored by the BDA with a commendation. The future architects were supervised by Professor Erhard An-He Kinzelbach in the design and graduation class.
The architectural tasks change annually: "Reanimation" was the design theme this year. The term, borrowed from medicine, stands for resuscitation. What is meant is a climate-friendly approach to existing buildings in the sense of sustainable and resource-saving architecture. Against this background, the Bochum students had a specific assignment last semester. With the conversion of an abandoned congress house in Bad Gastein, Austria, they were to develop a visionary location for a new art house.
