In a row of gardens, the new building in line with the street, nestles itself up against the steep hillside south of the historic village center.
The Location in a ISOS listed townscape area (federal inventory of protected built sites of national importance) was decisive for the new edifice.
It is identifiable as a public building by its defined surfaces, its silhouette and by its plasticity.
Single-floored and through its openings, the building develops an intensive relation to the private exterior spaces, which reach inwards. The garden is shaped by the positioning of the building with a street facade and a garden facade, by paved paths and squares and by hedges and big trees.
The building forms plastically differing sides with its distinctive longitudinal facades to the street and to the hillside. The components in contact with the ground in concrete, with knee-high bases and slender entrance areas, provide a protective foundation to the meticulously rasterized and filigree wooden building. The prominent rooftop with its far pulled down zinc sheets, visible from the lane “Leuengässli” and from the village center, turns into a fifth facade.
The axis-symmetric double-kindergarten creates by means of varying room heights a zoning of the floor plan which is perceivable from the outside. Trough openings in these “lanterns”, the two kindergarten main rooms get central sky-light above their sitting circle. The visible supporting structure and the paneling with different surface treatments define the atmosphere and the haptics of the interior spaces. The use of natural materials was paramount for a harmonious and healthy indoor ambience.
The finely segmented wooden structure proved itself ideal for the kindergartens with their need for a lot of storage space. Cupboards, shelves, kitchenettes and mobile dividing walls were integrated into the series of deep pillars. Furthermore those structural interspaces provide for technical installations with large cross sections, such as ventilation pipes.
Material Used:
1. Facade - Larch Wood Elements
2. Roof Cladding – Vmzinc Anthra-Zinc
3. Mineral Floor – Steinholz
4. Windows – Wood Windows In Oiled Oak
5. Wall Paneling – Triple Layer Wood Panels
6. Pin Board – Forbo Bulletin Board
7. Curtains – Natural Linen
8. Construction Elements – Fir/Spruce Wood
