Early Excellence Centre Munich

Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke

Early Excellence Centre Munich

Boesel Benkert Hohberg Architekten

ARCHITECTS
Boesel Benkert Hohberg Architekten

COLLABORATORS
Sarah Reinhard, Stefanie Regler

FACILITY ENGINEER
Ingenieurbüro Többen

LANDSCAPE
Luska Freiraum Gmbh

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Ingenieurbüro Muck

ACOUSTICS
Müller-bbm Gmbh

FIRE PREVENTION
K33 Architekten

ELECTRICS
Peg Gmbh

ACUSTIC
Müller Bbm

PHOTOGRAPHS
Henning Koepke

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Munich, Germany

CATEGORY
Kindergarten

Text description provided by architect.

The KITZ - Munich first "Early Excellence Centre" for children, parents and their families, opened up just right now and welcomes everybody to join that open house.

Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke
Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke

South of the city of fairs München-Riem, at the border of a new build landscape lies the KinderTagesZenrum for 120 children, aged between 1 and 12:

at the ground floor, connected to the garden the smaller kits between 1 and 6 and on the first floor on treelevel, the elder ones from 6 to 12.

Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke
Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke

"form follows energy & light" - the simple organized plan serves all spaces for the children towards the garden in the south, the corridor in the middle gets daylight from three "e³- skylights" on the roof of the building:

light and fresh air gets into the house, photovoltaic panels gain solar power for the institution.

Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke
Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke

"Genius loci" - anchoring on site. the choice of materials follows the specific landscaped surrounding; Handmade plastered garden walls are organizing the ground floor, wooden boxes on level of the surrounding trees form the upper floorplan.

The arbor-like made facade relates more to garden houses than to the solid formed building-environment.

Early Excellence Centre Munich
© Henning Koepke


Early Excellence Centre Munich
Floor Plan
Early Excellence Centre Munich
Floor Plan


Early Excellence Centre Munich
Sketch & Elevation
Early Excellence Centre Munich
Sketch & Section