The result was a delicious winter wonderland with a manor house, high-rise building, colorful magnificent house and windmill, with streets, benches and parking spaces, framed by various fantasy landscapes created by the students architecture. The best buildings were now awarded prizes – and then some were eaten away with mulled wine and Christmas music.
Sweet landscape with windmill, church, mansion and high-rise building
Alicianne Hocke, student in Mechanical engineeringand Sarah Tapfer, student in Civil engineeringhad worked for a whole day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the winning design, a gingerbread church based on the model of St. Marien zu Lübeck. I’ve been building crispy houses every year for many years, but this is my first church
says Sarah Bravery. The roof construction was particularly challenging. She came up with something special for the colorful windows: melted candies. For second-placed Feline Kahrau, it is the third gingerbread house. This time I planned the house with templates, then baked the building materials to fit and put it together on the third day
, she reveals her recipe for success for the pretty manor house with the filigree decorations. Anne Sange was awarded third prize for her high-rise building. She had no previous gingerbread building experience and was happy to collect a prize on her first try. The event was organized by Sarah Burwieck and Tom Rohde from the Construction department. The two had created a biscuit street in the building forum, constructed a model house for inspiration and identified building plots for the competition.
Browse and decorate for creative landscape designs
The gingerbread landscapes created by the students were also integrated into the winter landscape architecture under the direction of Professor Kendra Busche at the beginning of December. These different landscapes have creative names such as “Colorful Community”, “Möbius Society” or “Rebellion of the Flora”, and they are as different as the students of architecture. The task was to schmooze and embellish
, reveals Kendra Busche. In other words, the students received a text that dealt with various contemporary understandings of landscape. The participants were asked to translate this understanding of the landscape into a 30 x 30 cm edible model
said Kendra Busche.
Both landscapes and gingerbread houses have one thing in common: they were built sustainably, can be quickly dismantled without leaving any residue and recycled in an exemplary manner in terms of energy. If only building was always so easy and so delicious…