Reinsdorf day care centre

2011

The specified programme poses two particular challenges:
The size of the facility and the associated question of the child’s scale.

The site, which presents itself as an open landscape space without reference to other buildings.

In addition, a kindergarten is always a special task, as the building not only has to take account of design, functional, economic and ecological issues, but also has to respond to the special educational and emotional task of a building for children.

A significant building figure is developed from the order of the spatial programme, which is visible from the uppermost access points at street level, but cannot be perceived from the perspective of children moving around the site.

The star-shaped building figure thus ensures short distances and good orientation in the building, while at the same time the true size of the building remains hidden from the child’s eye, which ‘overplays’ the actual size of the building.

The folded roof landscape once again ‘breaks’ the scale of the building and opens up visual worlds for the viewer: ‘reading’ as a folded landscape in relation to the surrounding hilly landscape is just as possible as ‘reading’ as (another) ‘village’ in the landscape.

The basic decision to arrange all rooms on one level and to place the building in the centre of the site allows the children the greatest possible degree of independent exploration and experience of their environment and all rooms.