Article source: neuburger, bohnert und müller Architekten 

Design concept

The project was gained through a competition won in 2010. The task was to design a kindergarten for eight groups of children with a multipurpose hall, a dining hall and a staff room.

The polygonal shape of the area available for construction and the idea behind the design of putting the various rooms in separate buildings, creating a kind of “children’s village”, led to the star-shaped design of the facility, and to the placement of the different age-groups into individual and structurally separated buildings. Each unit – crèche, kindergarten, day-care centre, utility and staff – is given its own building. They are connected with each other by means of a central all-purpose hall, which we called the “Piazza”, and which is the heart of the child-care facility. What results is a subdivided pavilion in the midst of a treed park. Stations for play and educational purposes are distributed around the remaining garden.

Image Courtesy © Florian Schreiber

• Architects: neuburger, bohnert und müller Architekten 
• Project: The “Familienzentrum im Steinpark” kindergarten
• Location: Freising, Germany
• Photography: Florian Schreiber
• Software used: Vectorworks
• Client: The City of Freising Building Authority
• Landscape architects: Lynen & Dittmar landscape architects and urban planners, Freising
• Structural engineering / structural fire protection: IG Blankenhagen + Cohrs, Seeshaupt / Freising
• Building services: IBM-TGA GmbH, Moosburg / München
• Competition 2010: 1st place
• Realisation: 2012-13
• Completion: Sept. 2013

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