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Entwurf • Design Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel, Stuttgart
Lageplan • Site view Querschnitt • Transversal section
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan
Bauherr • Client Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
Standort • Location Parkstraße 22, 70190 Stuttgart
Nutzfläche • Floor space 965 m 2
Fotos • Photos Zooey Braun, Stuttgart
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 134
KITA IN THE PARK
IN STUTTGART
Buildings by the Stuttgart Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel ar-
chitects rarely drew attention with colourfulness – they
usually let the material colours speak for themselves. Kita
im Park nursery is different: The flame-red, two storey vo-
lume merges into the historic tree population and inside
surprises with strong green floors, walls and stairs. Gene-
rous glazing links the green inside and outside.
C members who, at the end of last year, gave a Hugo Häring Award
onsistently simply but never plain” is the conclusion of the jury
to the children´s day-care facility with four groups shorty before the
building was handed over. Indeed, all the design decisions appear to
have been the consequence of circumstances. In the eastern part of
Stuttgart – heterogeneously developed, criss-crossed by green – Birk
Heilmeyer und Frenzel had the two-storey new building planed on top
of an underground bunker complex. With this and due to the special
property parameters, the position, the building dimensions, the con-
struction and the materials had already been a given. The low weight
of a timber construction was suitable for the building on top of the
bunker complex and the orientation on the property made a clear se-
paration of the rather closed secondary-room zone in the north and
the group rooms with large openings to the south possible. This sepa-
ration is expressed in the façades as well as in the roof shape – visible
in the different roof inclinations and the skylight band along the hall-
way on the upper level. The latter ensures good illumination and ven-
tilation of the building, the former allows larger ceiling heights in the
lounges. So far, so logical, so simple! Beyond the pure functionality, a
manageable range of materials – wood, plaster and linoleum inside,
wood and metal outside – upgrades the design which is given its al-
most prosaic lightness with the addition of only two but strong co-
lours. Red is found in the façade design of the neighbouring Raitels-
berg development built in 1928, green intensifies the green of the sur-
roundings shimmering through the ceiling-high windows. Bright wood
panelling, white inner walls, doors and built-in furniture contrast with
the deep colours and produce a pleasantly light, calm spatial setting
which, as experience shows, is quickly enough enlivened by children,
furniture, toys and handicrafts and thus loses its sober strictness. This
unagitated simplicity not only has a beneficial effect on the built sur-
roundings but certainly also gives all the big and small users simply
a feeling of warm comfort – anything but plain!
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