Pfann-Ohmann Preis 2025

Verleihung des Pfann-Ohmann Preises an Simge Pehlivan, Lena Werle, Lukas Schiffner, Paula Ewald “Peatland Campus”

Das Projekt „Peatland Campus“ der Studierenden Simge Pehlivan, Lena Werle, Lukas Schiffner, Paula Ewald wurde von der Jury des diesjährigen Pfann-Ohmann Preises als beste Arbeit aus 25 nominierten Einreichungen gekürt. Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen des Entwerfens „Archipelagos: Towards a Cosmopolitical Architecture“ im Sommersemester 2025 und wurde von María Páez González und Brendon Carlin betreut. Wir gratulieren herzlich zu dieser Auszeichnung!

The project rethinks the type of the campus as three spatial interventions along the River Shannon in the Callows area, proposing a framework that redefines Ireland’s relationship with water — from extraction to regeneration. It explores how peatland restoration and monastic archetypes can hybridise to create spaces of care. 

At the Extraction Void, a concrete volume mirroring the pipeline’s ten-minute water extraction makes water commodification visible while recalling the typology of Irish holy wells. At Redwood Bog, modular and temporary stations for research and restoration reference early Irish dwellings. The Peatland Cloister Campus unites these ideas into a framework for collective learning and ecological care. 

The project proposes a forward-looking model for inhabiting restoration and resilience. It challenges extractive paradigms, not through oppsition, but through architectural propositions that reframe learning as a ritual of stewardship.