Kita Parkstraße Daycare Centre, Stuttgart Development, German Kindergarten Building, Architecture Photos
Kita Parkstraße Daycare Centre in Stuttgart
18 May 2021
Kita Parkstraße Daycare Centre
Design: Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel Architekten
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
In the east of Stuttgart, the four-group daycare center Kita Parkstraße was completed according to plans by Birk Heilmeyer and Frenzel Architects and handed over to the users. The wooden structure was erected on an underground bunker. Shortly before the building was handed over, the day care center received a Hugo Häring award from the BDA.
The property of the KiTa Parkstrasse is located in the vicinity of the Berg Cultural Park in the east of Stuttgart. The new two-storey building of the fourgroup nursery school is part of the green corridor with historic trees on the site of the previous building. The positioning, building dimensions, construction
and materials of the building are based on the special characteristics of the premises: The local building code specifies a building depth of twelve metres.
Its position and orientation result from the construction line and the terrain sloping from west to east. The foundation on an existing underground bunker makes a lightweight timber construction the only alternative.
The main entrance is located on the north side and is easy to distinguish within the façade. The foyer, which also serves as a parents’ meeting place, runs from north to south and opens towards the garden. From here the multipurpose room is accessed, and a corridor leads to the group areas in the south and the adjoining rooms in the north. All common rooms on the upper floor feature a loggia in front of them. Two external staircases, which stand out vividly against the building structure, lead directly from the upper floor down to the garden with open-air play areas.
The clear segmentation of the building into a group space and an ancillary room area is reflected in the design of the façades and the shape of the roof. Skylights in the roof above the corridor enhance this impression and allow for good lighting and ventilation of the building. Due to the internal organisation of the building, the sanitary and ventilation installations can be restricted to the ancillary room partition. This means that the room heights in the common rooms can be increased, whilst the amount of ceiling suspensions is reduced.
The nursery is designed as a structural timber construction with a high degree of prefabrication. The lower weight of the timber construction allows the building to be erected on the air-raid shelter below. The rising construction of the nursery consists of flat timber elements. The exterior walls benefit from all the advantages of a timber frame construction with ventilated facade cladding.
Through the red colour of the vertical timber cladding the building stands out against the green of the surrounding park.
Shortly after the construction was completed, the day-care center received a Hugo Häring Award 2020 from the Association of German Architects (BDA). The jury judges:“It is the simplicity that makes this building so powerful. Its position in the urban fabric. Its clear form, organisation, and structure. The reduction to few materials. The use of two striking colours. And it is precisely the red of the shell that creates the effect of the building as if it were an apparition in the park, raising it from pure functionality to a poetic level. Strangely aloof and at the same time very present. The contrasting green on the inside, which conjures up the colour of the leaves on the floor like a reflection on water, creates a strong connection between inside and outside. This is a decidedly successful building, planned down to the last detail – consistently simple, but never simplistic“.Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel Architekte
Client: Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Hochbauamt, Eva Farkas, Johannes Meinke
Architects: Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel Architekten, Stuttgart
Stephan Birk, Liza Heilmeyer, Martin Frenzel, Felix Fritz, Jochen Günzler (Projektleitung), Mykola Holoviznin, Hanna Münzenmaier, Sophia Riehl, Marc Holtschmidt, Daniel Eichele
Structural planning: Tragwerkeplus Ingenieurgesellschaft, Reutlingen
M&E: Paul+Gampe+Partner Beratende Ingenieure, Esslingen
Building physics: Brüssau Bauphysik, Fellbach
Landscape architecture: Prof. Jörg Stötzer, Stuttgart
Completion: Winter 2020
GFA and GV: 965 m² / 4.020 m³
Pruducts
Metal roof
Prefa, Prefalz P.10 OXYDROT
Sun screen
Roma Serge 600 / Leinen Bordeaux
Wooden facade
Holz-Brettschalung norwegische Fichte, sägerau
Lasur Rote Grütze, Adler Pullex
Floor covering
Forbo Marmoleum Walton Rosemary Green
Interior wooden ceiling
LIGNO Akustik, Lignotrend
Photography: Zooey Braun
Kita Parkstraße Daycare Centre, Stuttgart information / images received 180521
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, western Europe
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