This is Home Base

A place to focus, come together, and share—with people who get it. Whether you’re deep in thesis mode, between lectures, or just need a good meal and a quiet corner, everything here is designed to make life a little easier and a lot more enjoyable. Log in to explore what’s yours:

Personal retreat

Your room is your sanctuary—your bed, your desk, your space to breathe. Need silence for a long call? A corner to think? It’s waiting for you. And when you want a change of scenery, the garden room is there for a night away from it all, wrapped in the quiet scent of herbs and spice plants. Or when family visits, the large room opens up—bright, spacious, the kind of space that makes guests feel genuinely at home.

Wellbeing

A shared kitchen with real ambition beats a corridor of mini-fridges and single hobs every time. We’re talking sharp Japanese chef’s knives and a full set of German steel, cast iron skillets that have earned their seasoning, a carbon steel wok, copper pots for the slow simmers, a mandoline, a stand mixer, a pasta machine—the kind of tools most people only encounter in restaurant kitchens. Cooking here is a different experience entirely.

The same philosophy applies to the bathrooms. One is pure function—clean, efficient, everything you need. Another is something more: a wide, well-lit mirror that’s genuinely good for a careful morning routine, space to spread out, a place where getting ready doesn’t feel rushed.

A little coordination keeps it all flowing. All of that happens here, online, so nobody’s ever left waiting.

Workspaces

Our architects and builders thought carefully about what people actually need—and made sure it’s available to everyone.

The tables are chosen for their purpose. Some are wide and sturdy, better for spreading out work, opening books, or working through printed drafts. Others are warmer, lower, meant for eating together or having a long conversation over coffee.

For digital work: a projector for presentations, large screens, reliable connections—everything you need to host a study group or run through a deck without scrambling for cables.

For making things: a full carpentry toolkit for anyone building, fixing, or creating. And for finishing printed work—a corner rounder for clean-edged handouts, binding tools, a paper trimmer—the small details that make a student project look considered rather than thrown together.

It’s the kind of workspace most students don’t encounter until well into a career. Here, it’s just part of living together.

“A room gives you a place to sleep. Living here gives you something more—a community that shares skills, resources, and the occasional home-cooked meal.”

Log in and make yourself at home:

Students residents engineers and architects discussing improvements to the House of Sciences in Meiningen Thuringia Germany.