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The special feature of the task was the consideration of the pronounced topography and the proximity to the existing children's house and the adjacent residential development.
The aim of the planning competition was to achieve a high-quality, economical and sustainable building for this location that responds sensitively and appropriately to the urban planning and functional requirements. The idea for the project was inspired by modern aesthetic design language combined with natural materials and dominant colour contrasts to create an imaginative venue that fulfils children's desire for narrative architecture.
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With a walkout basement set into a slope, the two-storey hybrid-timber building forms an architectural focal point which pays almost perfect homage to the ambitiously modelled terrain while ensuring the mature tree population is retained.
The rear-ventilated façade of charred spruce interacting with bright, glazed teal spruce to form a rhythmic pattern achieves an enchantingly mystic effect, arousing curiosity not only in children. Elemental and earthbound in its consolidation of the special charms its surroundings offer, this woodland sanctum invites visitors to explore its mystery via the glazed main entrance. Set at an angle within the façade, it is framed by glazed spruce with a highly intense teal colour that evokes mountain and forest lakes.
Passive house standard, Sustainability through the use of renewable building materials for the façade and substructure; Resource-saving through the use of recycled concrete
Photovoltaic system on the green roof; Heat recovery due to high proportion of glazing
Winner:
Big See 2024,
Architecture Masterprize 2023,
World Design Awards 2023,
BLT Award 2023,
Big See Wood 2023,
C-IDEA 2023, IADA 2023
Grand Prix Award 2023, Kategorie »City and Community«, Nomination
International Architecture & Design Awards 2023, Silber
Mystic woodland sanctum for children as contemporary emulation
We have created an enchantingly mystic hybrid-timber building with a walkout basement set into a slope, its architecture emulating the terrain, perfectly adapted to the surrounding woodland. The brightly framed entrance is set at an angle within the two-storey timber façade made of charred spruce and contrasting glazed teal spruce that weaves a pattern. To the south, there is a protective access balcony structure with ultra-slim steel columns and two hot-dip galvanised steel stairways descending to the playground. Timber and steel form a creative workshop space for children. The embedded glazed walkout basement with its movement space is filled with atmosphere. Reflections and the supporting structure showing through as a stylised root system interconnect architecture and nature. The defined organisation of space and the communication between materials and colours bring a forest clearing to mind. Walls of light-coloured spruce grow out of an earthy rubber floor. Sulphur-yellow oak doors symbolise forest flowers. Window seats and wood wool panels forming a blue canopy make nature a central theme. The staircase unites the lift shaft’s exposed concrete with the spruce timber and black steel to create a tactile configuration.
The design formulates a self-confident, clear, flat-roofed urban structure with a rectangular floor plan. It is cleverly positioned on the available site and embedded in the existing topography. Its longitudinal alignment on the plot is close to the existing children's house and its outdoor areas. A "play strip" at garden level reinforces this approach. The orientation of the new building limits the street space. Most of the existing trees are retained.
Architecture is not objective, but influenced by processes, requirements, budgets and cultural-spatial conditions. Our early cooperation with the client – as early as the task development stage – creates a qualitative coherence between the construction project, urban integration, space, form and material. This not only creates an unmistakable building culture, but also a high level of recognition.
Our focus is on the workplace: the place where we spend most of our lives awake. Although we live in a world that is becoming more and more mobile from day to day, administration and production, research and teaching, education and training, and work, are linked to physical places. This topos requires both material and emotional criteria, to which we respond creatively, innovatively and with outstanding design quality.
