The open air exhibition and culture space ZU/FLUCHT is the outcome of 18 months of cooperation between Natural Building Lab, Stiftung Exilmuseum Berlin and a network of cooperation partners from the TU Berlin and beyond. ZU/FLUCHT is the first step towards to the new Exilmuseum, which will be built at Anhalter Bahnhof by Stiftung Exilmuseum in the coming years. For five months, the museum will be temporarily located in former tempohome containers that were until recently used to accommodate those seeking refuge in Berlin. Besides information and content from Stiftung Exilmuseum and NBL, the exhibition also showcases the results of the Habitat Unit research project “Architectures of Asylum” and contents from the “We Refugees Archive”.

As part of a joint funding application with the Bezirk Charlottenburg, in 2022 the TU will be realising a 1000m2 pavilion on the campus to provide an impulse for visitors and to facilitate more interaction between the university and the city. The museum should become an innovative communication and exhibition space, that can provide space for an open trans-disciplinary dialogue between science, art and society as an embodiment of the principles of citizen science. In WiSe 19-20 a series of design studios from different disciplines produced the first ideas for the project. This was followed up in SoSe 21 by a joint studio from NBL and FG DE/CO, which distilled key themes and architectural motives into four strong ideas for the project to move into the planning stage.