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Entwurf • Design bernardo bader architekten
Bauherr • Client Marktgemeinde Lauterach
Standort • Location Bachgasse 14a, AT-Lauterach
Nutzfläche • Floor space 960 m 2
Fotos • Photos Adolf Bereuter, AT-Dornbirn
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 154

NURSERY ENTENBACH

IN LAUTERACH

1 Bestand • Existing building With the option of later expanding it, Bernardo Bader
2 Neubau • New building complemented the municipal kindergarten of the com-
3 Haupteingang • Main entrance
4 Ruheraum • Restroom munity in the Vorarlberg region. In addition to the mate-
5 Speisesaal • Canteen rial wood typical of the location, sustainability played an
6 Turnhalle • Gym
7 Verwaltung • Administration essential role. The result is a friendly venue for children
8 Gruppe 1 • Group 1 with a lot of space for romping as well as for privacy
9 Gruppe 2 • Group 2 where the reference to the scenery is always present.
10 Gruppe 3 • Group 3
11 Loggia • Loggia 2
12 Garten • Garden
F or many years, in Lauterach near Bregenz those attending the
1 municipal kindergarten have been benefiting from the architecture
typical of the region which is closely intertwined with traditional crafts-
manship and the material wood. In 1999, the representatives of the
Vorarlberg Bauschule Helmut Dietrich and Much Untertrifaller had
designed a kindergarten made of timber on the border of the
Lageplan • Site plan Lauteracher Ried nature reserve. When it definitely became too small,
the municipality commissioned the architect Bernardo Bader – also
based in the Vorarlberg region – with planning a new building.
Preserving the alignment of the existing building, Bader expanded the
facility with a timber construction with a length of 65 metres and a
width of 20 metres. Interrupted by lower incisions, four sections can
4 3 7 7 7 be noticed in the construction panelled with rough-sawn silver fir.
8 9 10 While the largest section facing the old building is used for common
purposes such as the dining room, the library and the gym, a group
each is accommodated in the other three. Along the west longitudinal
4 5 6
façade, each section has an entrance situated deep in the reveal and
thus protected from the weather which indicates the individual group
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with the colours pink, blue and yellow. A total of 65 children aged
12 between 15 months and four years find a multi-facetted space to come
into their own in the light-flooded rooms of the stringent building. The
short entrance corridors cross a glazed central hallway which becomes
a spacious movement area for everyone across the whole length of the
building. In the group rooms with a height of five metres, galleries pro-
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan vide possibilities for privacy. Through sliding doors in the east façade,
the little ones first enter a loggia which serves as a weather-protected
area for romping outside before continuing on into the garden. Besides
a design of child-oriented rooms with architectural quality, sustainabil-
ity and a healthy room climate were requested. Installed as panels on
the ceiling, wood always ensures pleasant acoustics. And underneath
the floor of ash wood, floor heating makes for cosy warmth during
Längsschnitt • Longitudinal section carefree playing in a world custom-made for children.

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