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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Kindergarten Jelka in Ljubljana, Slovenia by ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

 
June 21st, 2016 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Kindergarten Jelka is an extension of a kindergarten in a housing neighbourhood from the sixties in a Slovenia’s capital city Ljubljana. When a new housing complex was built in the vicinity, this kindergarten extension became a necessity. Local authorities have commissioned a local prefab company to build the new annex entirely from wood, also to showcase the adequacy of wooden constructions for the kindergarten use. Building with local wood is not only nature friendly way to create healthy and cosy environment, but it is also a first step to invite the children into the world of sustainable values.

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

  • Architects: ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK
  • Project: Kindergarten Jelka
  • Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Photography: Miran Kambič
  • Client: Mestna občina Ljubljana
  • Project team: Jure Kotnik, Andrej Kotnik, Črt Čuček
  • Structural Engineering: CBD Bruno Dujič
  • Mechanical Engineering: Linasi Peter
  • Electrical Engineering: Iztok Zlatar
  • Built by: Riko Hiše d.o.o
  • Size: 155 m2
  • Project year: 2009
  • Construction year: 2010

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

The new kindergarten annex is attached to the east side of the existing building and stretches into the garden, which has enlarged the volume by an additional 155m2 of playroom surfaces. The extension consists of two playrooms for 28 children, two cloakrooms, central washroom, staff cloakrooms, entrance hallway, playground toilet for external use and covered terrace. Both playrooms are south orientated, while they also both receive additional light from the large side openings and are therefore well illuminated and offer to the little-ones environment that supplements the warmth of their own home. The design of the playrooms is compact but still allows for the furniture to be arranged in various formations. Located between the two playrooms, washrooms have large glass openings, which visually increase their volume as well as ease tutor supervision.  Playrooms share a covered terrace that enable children’s activity when the weather is bad, while also protects them from the hot sun in the summer. Kindergarten façade consists of thin vertical lamellas in natural wood, while the wood on the covered terrace is painted in dark grey colour. New and old building is connected with a narrow hallway made from wooden pillars of various green and yellow colours and it is covered with translucent polycarbonate boards that soften the passage between buildings.

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © Miran Kambič

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

Image Courtesy © ARHITEKTURA JURE KOTNIK

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