Ecker Architekten - Kindergarten Dandelion Clock - Alemania

La planta se organiza radialmente alrededor de un atrio, el mayor espacio en la escuela. Esta sala de reuniones flexible sirve como zona de circulación, lugar de juego interior, comedor comunal y lugar donde cada niño comienza y termina su día escolar. Su tamaño también permite actividades de grupo y celebraciones, parte vital de la misión educativa de la escuela y lograda más allá del presupuesto del proyecto.

Este atrio está iluminado y ventilado por cuatro lucarnas llamadas “El Arlequín”, que otorga al edificio un carácter distintivo tanto en el interior como el exterior.

La estructura es de madera maciza y laminada con muro cortina de perfiles de aluminio. Para las piezas de madera se utilizó un router CNC, para asegurar la precisión que requiere el aluminio. La construcción de este edificio duró tan sólo 8 meses.

El color refuerza el concepto de forma radial de la construcción y ayuda en la orientación espacial de los niños.

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Fotos: Constantino Meyer
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Cliente:

Condado de Neckar-Odenwald
Representado por el Dr. Achim Brötel de County Executive
Renzstrasse 10, 74821 Mosbach, achim.broetel@neckar-odenwald-kreis.de
Teléfono 0 62 61 - 84 0 Fax 0 62 61 - 84 4737


Arquitecto y contratista general:

Ecker Architekten
Iglauer Strasse 13 , 74722 Buchen, ecker@ecker-architekten.de
Tel 0 62 81 – 56 56 54 Fax 0 62 81 – 56 35 70 www.ecker-architekten.de


Ingeniería estructural:
Färber + Hollerbach, Keimstrasse 19, 74731 Walldürn

Ingeniería ambiental:
Ingenieurbüro Willhaug, Pirminstraße 1, 74821 Mosbach

Carpintería:
Zimmerei Bechtold, Roigheim

Fotografía:
Constantino Meyer, Colonia

Texto original en inglés

Kindergarten Dandelion Clock in Buchen/Odenwald

The project brief articulated by the Neckar-Odenwald County required an extremely economical structure, to be quickly built. The kindergarten ‘Dandelion clock’ educates 38 children with physical or developmental handicaps.

Four repetitive modules comprise the building. Each of these units contains two group classrooms and a small therapy room. Large roof overhangs shade classrooms in the summer months and allow outdoor play on terraces in poor weather.

The units are radially distributed about an atrium- the largest single space in the school. This flexible meeting room serves as a circulation zone, an indoor playing field, a communal dining hall, and the place where each child begins and ends his or her school day. The size of the atrium also permits joint group activities and celebrations, fulfilling a vital part of the school’s educational mission first thought beyond the budget of the project.

This center is naturally illuminated and ventilated by four prominent roof monitors – the so-called ‘jester’s cap’. Opening lower vents in the classroom façade and the window flaps mounted at the top each monitor naturally draws air through the entire building, providing cooling during warmer days or when the atrium is densely populated. The monitors form the visual identity of the kindergarten, which has a strong presence despite sprawling, commercial surroundings. The cladding of these elements in gold-anodized aluminum roofing creates an important point of pride for the children who are schooled here.

The entire building was executed in wood frame construction, with glue-laminated timber columns and beams. Connection reveals in the timbers, designed to accept aluminum curtain wall profiles, were milled with a CNC wood router in the carpenter’s shop to ensure precision on the construction site. The nearly identical building modules enabled factory production of large framed panels, resulting in an extremely economical and fast erection - the entire construction period for this building, from groundbreaking to ribbon-cutting, totaled 8 months. Exterior walls are clad with robust clapboards, and wood products play a dominant role in the interior build-out. The color concept reinforces the radial form of the building and assists in the spatial orientation of the young user group.

Technical Information:

Wood frame construction, supporting framework from construction-grade full-timber and glue-laminated timber.

Wall and ceiling insulation with blown-in Loose-fill dry cellulose.

Interior finishes: Visible glue-laminated beams and columns, general wall sufaces are built from OSB (oriented strand-board) and „Fermacell“ (a gypsum and wood-fiber drywalling)- painted. Rubber base at floors. Linoleum flooring is used throughout the building.

Custom built-in cabinetry from MDF with plastic laminate surfacing.

Solid-core doors with opalescent plastic laminate surfacing and solid wood edging.
Stainless steel door hardware – Jasper Morrison’s 1144 Series for FSB.

Custom childrens’ tables are built from solid oak surfaced with desk-top linoleum.

Hung ceilings (interior and exterior) are Heraklith, a Magnesite-cement and wood-fiber acoustic panel.

Exterior Finsihes: Wood Clapboards, painted; the protection of the laminated timber construction on the exterior is provided by Aluminium roof edging and window cladding. The ‘jester’s cap’ is clad with a standing-seam gold-anodized aluminum rain-screen.

The overhangs above the terraces provide the building with solar shading in the summer months and allow a ‚solar gain’ in the winter.

Ventilation flaps in the aluminium curtain wall façade allow a continuous, controlled stream of fresh air into the building. Excess warmth is ventilated through a ‘thermal chimney’ at the highest point of the building, the ‘jester’s cap’ above the atrium. Even during construction in the hot summer of 2006, the climatic concept produced a comfortable interior environment without the aid of mechanical cooling.


Arquitectura en Alemania
Arquitectura de escuelas o escolar
Arquitectura educacional o educativa


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