LIFE Hamburg, German Educational Facility, German Campus Building, Architecture Images
LIFE Hamburg in Germany
Modern and Sustainable Education Architecture in Germany – design by LAVA and Cityplot
28 Oct 2019
LIFE Hamburg
Architects: LAVA
Location: Hamburg, Germany

Caves, waterholes and campfires. These are the diverse spaces for intergenerational learning in a new purpose-built campus in Hamburg, Germany.

Architectural firm LAVA joined forces with urban agricultural collective Cityplot to design LIFE Hamburg, a new figure eightshaped building of three levels that is energy self-sufficient, and brings inside and outside together into one continuous landscape.

Based on the educational paradigms of Learnlife (purpose-inspired and personal learning) and American futurist David Thornburg (variety of spatial typologies), a new type of landscape building will reinvent learning for 800 children and 800 adults, opening in 2023.
Tobias Wallisser, LAVA director, said: ?Variety and diversity are the spatial prerequisites for creative learning. And LAVA?s design enables the optimal conditions: connection to outdoors, integration of green spaces, fresh air and daylight, unobtrusive technical support and flexibility.?

?We combined the differentiated learning spaces of Thornburg with our nature-inspired design approach. Instead of homogeneous rooms, there are spaces with different levels of brightness, openness, plantings and connections to the exterior. Based on Thornbu...