Engelbach Kindergarten
Architect: Innauer-Matt Architects ZT GmbH
Location: Lustenau, Austria
Type: Kindergarten
Year: 2019
Photographs: Adolf Bereuter
The following description has been translated from German. With the new Engelbach kindergarten, a unique, unmistakable world for children has emerged between Grindelkanal and Hasenfeldstrasse. A place with a homely character that is characterized by an aura of great relaxation. A kindergarten that combines the potential of the place with the requirements of modern pedagogy.
The outside space plays an important role in this. Accordingly, the new kindergarten is located a little away from the street and thus creates space for an openly designed, publicly usable space of a high quality. The maximized outdoor area with children’s playground and public playground is oriented towards the Grindel Canal and offers children and residents of the area a high-quality adventure space in the countryside.
Adolf Bereuter Adolf Bereuter
The new kindergarten building is designed as a compact, two-storey structure, that conceals a multi-layered inner world characterized by openness on the inside and outside, with generous access points and communication zones. All areas of the house are connected via three staircases over a short distance and the children’s traffic flows, which are dense at rush hour, are disconnected.
On the upper floor – the “Belletage” – the rooms are divided equally on one level. Each of the five units with movement space and communication zones function as an independent area within the building. All groups are oriented consistently towards the south-east, which ensures optimal exposure and tanning during the core hours of the kindergarten in the morning.
Weather-protected play terraces expand the functionality of the rooms behind, create a pleasant transition space and convey a strong relationship to the surrounding, high-quality outdoor play area. The simple and straightforward organization of the new kindergarten facilitates orientation and thus forms the ideal conditions for a communicative learning and play landscape.
The external and internal appearance is characterized by a delicate architectural language, which in its scale finds motifs throughout. Natural, local wood and windows framed in metal characterize the simple yet atmospheric semantics of the house.
The material concept in the interior creates a mood appropriate to the use, but remains reserved. Solid surfaces made of wood, mineral materials and carefully coordinated colors enrich the room with their pleasant appearance and feel, but leave the children and educators enough freedom to develop themselves.
The building was constructed as a mixed use of wood and concrete, which can meet today’s energetic and ecological requirements, especially with regard to sustainability. A basic structure of stiffening core walls is supplemented by prefabricated wall and ceiling elements made of wood. The use of high-quality, ecological and regionally available materials, energy-efficient building technology systems and the use of renewable energy protect nature and the environment and make a positive contribution to sustainability.
Project Details
Credits
- Client: Lustenau market town
- Project management client: Ing.Eugen Amann, building authority of the municipality of Lustenau
- Architecture: Innauer Matt Architects ZT GmbH, Bezau
- Color design: Monika Heiss, Color & Design, Dornbirn
- ÖBA: Planschmiede BM Ing.Wolfgang Fetty, Lustenau
- Statics: Merz Kley Partner ZT GmbH, Dornbirn
- HSL planning: GMI Ing.Peter Messner GmbH, Dornbirn
- Electrical planning: Ludwig Schneider electrical planning, Egg
- Building physics: DI Günter Meusburger, Schwarzenberg
- Landscape architecture: Stadtland, DI Thomas Loacker, Hohenems
- Road space design: Verkehrsingenieure Besch and Partner KG, Feldkirch
- Drainage planning: Water plan – Fischer & Herda ZT Gbmh, Hohenems
Facts
- Start of planning: 02 2017
- Start of execution: 09 2018
- Completion: 10 2019
- Usable area: 1900m2 / 6 group rooms / 126 kindergarten places
- Enclosed space: 7700m3
- Playground: 1600m2 (kindergarten) 1700m2 (public)
- Heating requirement: 12.1 kWh / m²a (Ap)
- Total energy efficiency factor: 0.53 (A ++)
- Heating: geothermal heat pump
- Ventilation: Comfort ventilation with heat recovery
- Municipal building permit: 950 points
