In Dessau, the house is intended to tell and make visible a forgotten but important Bauhaus story, as well as to serve as a stimulus to think about and try out future uses of the place in Mittelbreite 12. The construction has been developed in such a way that the house can be erected and dismantled quickly and easily and can therefore be relocated. With the wandering of the house also the use can change, the principle remains thereby. The use is seasonal, as thermal insulation according to today's standards has been dispensed with in order not to distort the character of the historical planning. After one and a half years of presence in Dessau, the Growing House is to move on to Haus Lemke by Mies van der Rohe in Berlin. The museum wants a kind of visitor centre where the necessary service stations can be accommodated in order to make Haus Lemke fully accessible to visitors.

Design/ Build means that students not only design the building but also build it themselves. This practice, which is pursued in many places today, emerged in the 1960s as a result of criticism of the traditional understanding of the roles of architects and planners and the usual forms of education. Its predecessor is Taliesien West by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Black Mountain College and Bauhaus Dessau. It was here that Hannes Meyer first realised construction projects together with students.