Sauerbruch Hutton has completed a new campus for the Federal University of Public Administration in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in north Germany, which will provide accommodation for 600 students from across Germany to live and study on campus. The campus responds to the scale of the surrounding industrially prefabricated large-panel concrete buildings, continuing the principle of serial building with timber modular construction methods. The university building, conceived as a ‘groundscraper’, encloses the campus to the north with a 130m-long folded aluminium façade. If we can demonstrate here on a large scale that modular timber construction works – in terms of quality, cost-effectiveness and meeting deadlines – we could create an impact far beyond this project. The entire project was constructed using a resource-efficient, largely CO₂-reduced and low-emission hybrid timber and modular construction method.