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Entwurf • Design Innauer Matt Architekten, AT-Bezau
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan Grundriss 1. Obergeschoss • Floor plan level +1 playschool places on an effective area of 1,900 square metres. Their de-
Längsschnitt A-A • Longitudinal section A-A
Längsschnitt B-B • Longitudinal section B-B
Bauherr • Client Marktgemeinde Lustenau
Standort • Location Hasenfeldstraße 35, AT-Lustenau
Foto: Christian Anwander
Nutzfläche • Floor space 1.900 m 2
Fotos • Photos Adolf Bereuter, AT-Dornbirn
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 134
PLAYSCHOOL
IN LUSTENAU
The quality of educational buildings reflects the apprecia-
tion which a society shows regarding the question of edu-
cation. Innauer Matt Architekten met the central request
by their building client as to costs, aesthetics and sustai-
nability when commissioned to design a playschool as a
place of encounter where children experience design, de-
velop creativity and get a sense of community.
I f one were to visit a playschool in any rural area in the 1970s, it might
well have happened that the first-class room of the local elementary
school had to serve as the venue of it during the afternoons: A few pie-
ces of furniture were simply moved, some wooden crates were brought
into the classroom from the shelf in the hallway – and, presto, the play-
school was ready. Light years away from this and shortly before the first
lockdown happened in Austria, Innauer Matt completed a two-storey,
six-group playschool in Lustenau in the Vorarlberg region which has 126
sign had won them first prize in the competition for the new building of
the playschool. Natural local wood and windows framed in metal, pre-
cise detail work and a small-segmented differentiation characterize the
simple, atmospheric architectural language of the building and combine
the potential of the location with the requirements of modern pedago-
gics: On the upper floor are the group rooms all equal on one level and
consistently oriented in southeast direction which ensures optimal
lighting and sunlight in the mornings. Loggias cleverly expand the
functionality of the rooms situated behind them and produce a connec-
tion to the outdoor play area which is coordinated as to the design and
the concept. Five units with spacious communication- and movement
zones represent an independent area within the building itself. Three
staircases facilitate the flow of children during peak times and link the
two levels. The clear spatial organization makes it easy for the children
to get their bearings and is an ideal prerequisite for an innovative com-
municative landscape of learning and playing. A carefully coordinated
concept of colours and materials for the interiorsfd with solid surfaces
of wood and mineral materials is the result of a cooperation with Mo-
nika Heiss, a specialist planner of colour design in architecture. Optics
and haptics of natural ash with laminate in contrasting colours, polis-
hed concrete and wood-wool panels not only make for a comfortable
atmosphere and acoustics: They stimulate creativity and offer the chil-
dren and their teachers equal leeway for their personal development.
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