The long-awaited expansion of the Brücke Museum in Berlin forms the basis for the current master's thesis assignment for the winter semester 2025/26 by the Chair of Building Typologies.

The heterogeneous situation of the museum, built in 1967 by Werner Düttmann on the edge of the Grunewald forest, which is characterised on the one hand by its quiet but topographically varied forest location and on the other by its immediate proximity to Arno Breker's former state studio, now the Kunsthaus Dahlem, opens up a wide range of perspectives. The consideration of public and semi-public space, the interplay of nature, art and architecture, but also fundamental questions about monuments and fragments in architecture provoke, in Foucault's sense, an awareness of a heterotopic space within which solutions must be sought. Analysis and interpretation of context and identity form the basis of methodical, typological design. However, building within existing structures is also explicitly understood as the most sensitive form of tectonic intervention, in which a minimal version with the smallest possible footprint is sought. Critical examination of atmosphere and materials in both existing and new buildings is reflected, as are the individual solutions, for example in the arrangement of the individual elements in relation to each other or in the conceptual details.

Museum director Lisa Marei Schmidt from the Brücke Museum in Berlin supports the thesis and will be present at the final presentation in March 2026.