Daycare and Family Center in Miltenberg / Bez+Kock Architekten

Text statement provided by the architects. Can you ideate a much charming determination for the caller operation of a daycare center? The monastery plot of the erstwhile Franciscan monastery built successful the 17th period is simply a greenish oasis successful the historical metropolis halfway of Miltenberg. A spot that combines centrality and structure successful an perfect way: Located conscionable a fewer steps from Engelplatz successful the halfway of Miltenberg, the caller daycare halfway is sheltered by the mighty reddish sandstone partition that encloses the monastery plot of the erstwhile Franciscan monastery.

At the aforesaid time, this plot is besides a delicate spot with a large history, a spot that has thing to archer - a not wholly unimportant facet successful the acquisition and teaching of values to our children. For this crushed alone, its improvement with a daycare halfway requires caution and precision.

The caller gathering was designed arsenic a one-story woody pavilion that fits perfectly betwixt the historical monastery walls: Its cubature divides the existing plot into the protected free-play country of the daycare halfway and a publically accessible unfastened abstraction that - successful keeping with the tone of the erstwhile monastery plot - is disposable to the residents of Miltenberg. With its gentle tallness gradation, the gathering follows the somewhat sloping topography of the tract and frankincense achieves a restrained and earthy integration of the caller gathering into its surroundings.

Along some agelong sides of the daycare center, a continuous pergola creates a weather-protected beforehand portion for playing and spending time. The rooms of the household halfway make astir the landscaped interior courtyard astatine the interface with the daycare center. The ample multi-purpose room, which is disposable to some idiosyncratic groups and is oriented towards the entranceway side, was besides placed straight adjacent to it.

The daycare halfway was constructed arsenic a structural timber gathering with disposable surfaces connected an in-situ factual level slab. The regionally disposable and renewable worldly wood forms the important halfway of the gathering structure; it is robust, high-performance, and sensual. Fine vertical slats of metallic fir clad the facades of the daycare center. The section reddish sandstone masonry of the historical monastery partition forms the characterful outer enclosure of the caller interior. The haptic and atmospheric qualities of sandstone and wood marque the daycare halfway a location to interaction and grasp - besides successful the protected free-play area, which has individually developed play elements made of wood.

Brightly colored felt elements supply the children with predisposition inside. Large-format skylights accentuate the entree country to the idiosyncratic kindergarten groups and make an charismatic daylight concern for the checkrooms, which were built into widened country niches. Each radical country has an integrated climbing constituent that rises arsenic a lookout supra the greenish extortion areas. The precocious levels are enclosed lone by a airy alloy nett and frankincense connection maximum of transparency. Here, retreats person been created for the children that animate them to dream, read, observe oregon bespeak with a presumption of the straight adjacent monastery.