Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten

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Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber

ARCHITECTS
Nbundm

CLIENT
The City Of Freising Building Authority

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Ig Blankenhagen + Cohrs

STRUCTURAL FIRE PROTECTION
Ig Blankenhagen + Cohrs

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Ig Blankenhagen + Cohrs, Seeshaupt / Freising

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Lynen & Dittmar Landscape Architects And Urban Planners

BUILDING SERVIC
IBM-TGA GmbH

PHOTOGRAPHS
FLorian Schreiber

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Freising, Germany

CATEGORY
Kindergarten

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber

Text description provided by architect.

DESIGN CONCEPT

The project was gained through a competition won in 2010. The task was to design a kindergarten for eight groups of children with a multipurpose hall, a dining hall and a staff room.

The polygonal shape of the area available for construction and the idea behind the design of putting the various rooms in separate buildings, creating a kind of "children's village", led to the star-shaped design of the facility, and to the placement of the different age-groups into individual and structurally separated buildings.

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber
Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber

Each unit – crèche, kindergarten, day-care centre, utility and staff – is given its own building. They are connected with each other by means of a central all-purpose hall, which we called the "Piazza", and which is the heart of the child-care facility.

What results is a subdivided pavilion in the midst of a treed park. Stations for play and educational purposes are distributed around the remaining garden. Alongside the functional concept, there is also a pedagogical concept.

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber
Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber

The method, which is known as the Reggio method (named after the Italian city of Reggio), provides for the educational fostering and stimulation of the children in line with their personal strengths, and this is to be achieved not only through the parents and caregivers, but also through the structure itself.

It provides for as many different spatial situations as possible, views into, out of and through the facility. The "Piazza" encourages and supports all kinds of activities and games.

CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS

In order to be in harmony with the natural green location and trees on the property, we chose to build in wood that is visible both from the inside and the outside.

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber
Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber

The buildings will age over the years, just as the surrounding nature will. People will experience a material that lives and breathes.

Nature motifs also played an important role in the interior design. For example, the Piazza is conceived as a kind of a forest clearing.

Its bearing elements are covered with tree trunks, the groups bear the names of animals or trees, which are embossed into the flooring as a silhouette.

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber
Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber

The buildings are made using the wood panelling construction method. This means wall and ceiling elements were pre-fabricated, partially already panelled on one side for reinforcement, and delivered to the construction site, where they were installed, insulated and boarded.

All the ceilings in the common areas are fitted with wood panelling for acoustics purposes, which was already integrated into the pre-fabricated ceiling elements delivered in their finished form to the site.

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
© Florian Schreiber
Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
Upper Floor Plan

The walls are panelled on the outside with pre-patinated larch and on the inside with varnished spruce. The window frames are also made of wood.

ENERGY CONCEPT / SUSTAINABILITY

The building was constructed in wood without thermal bridges, in passive-house standard. The annual heating requirement is below 15 kWh/m2a. In winter, large window fronts in the group rooms exploit the heating effect of strong direct sunlight.

Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
Ground Floor Plan
Familienzentrum im Steinpark Kindergarten
Site Plan


All of the group rooms, the day-care centre and the staff and utility buildings are equipped with decentralised ventilation devices with waste-heat recovery.


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