Kindergarten Zihlschlacht

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht

Lukas Imhof Architektur

DESIGN TEAM
Lukas Imhof, Benedikt Profanter, David Aeschbacher, Jana Stratmann, Eva Meisinger

ENGINEERING
Josef Kolb AG, Romanshorn

LANDSCAPE
Markus Cukrowicz, Winterthur

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Lukas Imhof / Lukas Imhof Architektur Gmbh

AREA
230 m²

CATEGORY
Kindergarten

LOCATION
Zihlschlacht-sitterdorf, Switzerland

YEAR
2018

Text description provided by architect.

Designed for the slightly sloping terrain, the kindergarten Zihlschlacht is organized on 6 levels and offers space for two kindergarten classes.

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer

Like two spirals twisted into each other, one kindergarten unit develops downwards from the entrance, the other upwards.

An exception in the split-level system creates an overheight kindergarten room for the lower unit, the space under the roof creates one for the upper unit.

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer

This spatial continuum develops around a core of concrete, which is rotated by 45° to the geometry of the floor plan.

Except for this "backbone" of concrete, the entire building is made of wood.

On the façade, the complex building structure is not shown in a striking manner, but rather in a restrained one: a slight variation of the façade structure and horizontal cornice bands trace the interior structure of the house.

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer

The cover strips of the painted wood paneling are painted in two colours. The front side is beige, the sides in red.

This creates a surprise effect at second glance: The house changes ist color in movement and depending on the perspective – it changes from red to red-beige striped to beige.

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer

The entrance is marked with an iconographically ambiguous wooden support - an element which, although load-bearing, primarily marks the entrance and the building's deliberately incomplete axis of symmetry.

A radially structured, colourfully painted ceiling stretches over it, like a "follie" or a "carousel" inserted into the house.

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer

A recognition feature of the Kindergarten Zihlschlacht that - as we hope - will be imprinted in the collective consciousness of the children of Zihlschlacht - as a memory and as a piece of Heimat.


Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer


Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht


Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer


Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
© Hannes Heinzer


Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
Ground floor plan
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
1st floor plan
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
Basement plan 01
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
Basement plan 02


Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
North elevation
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
South elevation
Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
East elevation
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West elevation


Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
Section 1-1
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Section 2-2
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Section B-B

Kindergarten Zihlschlacht
Model