Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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New construction of the Central and State Library Berlin

Typologies are changing. In recent decades, some typologies typical of cities have already disappeared and others, such as the classic city library, are gradually dissolving, or in an unstoppable process of transformation. To date, no other institution opens the door to the future as widely as a library. First and foremost, because a library is a storehouse of memory and knowledge, on which all educational and research institutions rely, and at the same time it is a suitable spatial environment and a central place for lifelong learning for all users.
Libraries were the first public institutions to have Internet access.

Today, in the digital age, all information can be accessed quickly anywhere and at any time in any library, and at the same time libraries are also experiencing a renaissance with their analog material.
This raises the question of the extent to which architectural space has changed or will change as libraries become increasingly crowded. They have become a multifunctional place, a second living room where the population of a city meets.

The design task of the master's thesis examines one of the largest public libraries in Germany, the so-called Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, positioned on the Mehringplatz site at the end of Friedrichstraße. This task, provocative at first glance, evokes the potentials of this paradigm shift from a humanistic conception of the library to a heterotopian* cultural institution that provides access to education, knowledge, production, and encounter for all - young or old, rich or poor, educated or uneducated. The question of whether an inner-city desolate structure - such as the proposed inner periphery of Mehringplatz - is suitable for providing the appropriate framework for this typological discourse and at the same time counteracting spatial loss will have to be answered anew with each individual design approach. Library, street and square generate a new center, a new urban utopia in the middle of Berlin.

*Heterotopia concept by Michel Foucault