Urban Mining Student Award: “Winning designs impress with their architectural quality!”
We are delighted to announce the KIT winners of the UMSA (Urban Mining Student Award)!
With three places within the prize-winning group, the students of our last design semester at the Professorship for Sustainable Construction at KIT were extremely successful within the submitted 29 projects. Nils Henrik Benkeser took first place, Frederik Busch took third place and Maximilian Weiß received a recognition. Congratulations!
The UMSA jury states: “Two first prizes of €1,000 each and a subscription to Detail Magazine and Detail Inspiration were awarded to the team of Sarah Henn and Malte Grobenstieg from the University of Wuppertal and Nils Henrik Benkeser from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Bennet Tielker and Emma Lou Fiedler from the münster school of architecture received the second prize of €800 and an Atlas Recycling each, and Frederik Busch from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was delighted with the third prize of €500.
Two commendations were also awarded with €300 each. These were awarded to the team of Pia Steffen and Christiane Öhmann and Maximilian Weiß.
A total of 29 entries from 8 universities were submitted.”
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Nils Henrik Benkesers winning project “+800m” 
Nils Henrik Benkeser and Prof. Dirk Hebel discussing during the semesters final review 
Frederik Busch took third place with his project “Spitzenkreativpark Langerfeld” 
Frederik Busch presenting his design 
Maximilian Weiß received a recognition for his project “Zwischenspiele” 
Maximilian Weiß during the semesters final review
