The design follows a clear intention: to create spaces of opportunity for children while taking into account the interests of local residents. The outdoor areas face the undeveloped sides, and sunlight is brought into the building throughout the day via skylights.
An area with administrative rooms leads to the actual kindergarten area.
The group rooms are arranged around a central area with flexible rooms. Different room sequences are made possible by sightlines and mobile partition walls.
The structure of the roof with its skylight strips references the archetype of the house while also creating a building with ideal southeast orientation for every season, flooded with light and well ventilated even deep inside the building.
The roof shape gives the house and group rooms their identity: a collection of houses forming a children’s town with paths and squares.
The single-story, structured building responds specifically to its orientation: to the southeast, there is a covered, communicative entrance with space for parking strollers. To the northeast, the group rooms interlock with the outdoor area via protected niches. To the northwest, the group-related open spaces with wide views are protectively cut into the building structure. The cross-group rooms are arranged to the southwest.
The group rooms themselves are also divided by the roof shape into a higher, light-flooded, open area and a lower, protected area.
Supported by the choice of colors and materials, child-friendly, stimulating rooms are created.
Invited competition, 2016
Organizer:
City of Neuburg an der Donau
Project team:
Elis Hackaj
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