Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, AB

Tellus Nursery School

Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman

TELLUS NURSERY SCHOOL

Tham & Videgard Arkitekter

CATEGORY
Educational Architecture

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Sweden

Text description provided by architect.

On the border between a former urban/industrial development and a small forest where new housing is being developed, this nursery school mediates between different contexts and scales.

Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman

A semi enclosed entrance courtyard constitutes a first exterior space for parents and children meeting and leaving.

The organic layout encourages movement as space becomes continuous and creates both exterior and interior rooms of challenging shapes.

Windows are freely placed at different heights and allow for light and views to be adapted also to the scale of children, which further the relation between the interior and the exterior play ground and the wooded hill.

Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman

Together with the client and the pedagogues’ inspiration from the Reggio Emilia school, a new way to organize the interior was developed.

The result is a rather unorthodox plan, where instead of a complete ’flat’ for each group of children, there will be a large common interior plaza where the six groups can interact around different activities, playing and learning projects.

Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman

This main space is complemented with separate atelier spaces for water projects and art, as well as small secluded group rooms for rest and quiet activities.

The facade panel, made of 50x50mm sawn wood, filters direct sunlight into the nursery school and create hidden windows that underscores the curved interior and exterior spaces.

Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
© Åke E:son Lindman

The building complies with the highest standards for environmentally friendly and long term sound construction.


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Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, AB
T +46 8 7020046
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, AB
Blekingegatan 42, 116 62 Stockholm, Sweden