KIBE Child Care Centre / Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten

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  • Project Management: Karin Prieler
  • Collaborators: Norbert Schindler, Dominik Troppan
  • Fire Protection Consultant: Norbert Rabl ZT GmbH
  • Construction Physics: Vatter & Partner ZT GmbH, Gleisdorf
  • Acoustics Consultant: Vatter & Partner ZT GmbH, Gleisdorf
  • Building Systems Planning: Haustechniker ZT GmbH, Jennersdorf
  • Electrical Consultant: Haustechniker ZT GmbH, Jennersdorf
  • City: Graz
  • Country: Austria
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© Krischner & Oberhofer photography

Text description provided by the architects. A child care centre has to have a differing range of areas to meet the children’s varying perceptive needs. This applies the same way to indoor and outdoor areas. The possibility of social engagement as well as segregation is equally offered. This general pretension to the children’s space is overlaid with the specific site requirements such as noise protection (for the neighbourhood) and the particular topographic situation.

KIBE Child Care Centre / Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
© Krischner & Oberhofer photography

Resulting in a building that creates a flat stretched unique world structured by a diverse sequence of differing spaces such as linger areas or spacious playgrounds. The exterior appearance on the contrary shows a much closed volume growing out of the landscape revealing itself as a closed one-and-a-half-story high volume facing the main adjacent road with a perforated roofscape.

KIBE Child Care Centre / Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten - Interior Photography, Dining room, Chair, Table
© Krischner & Oberhofer photography

Underneath this spacious roof each kindergarten group and function is strung along the main circulating corridor. Each unit is organized very economical according to its function. But its position to each other in combination with the roofs differing openings creates a varied range of spaces.

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Floor Plan

Throughout the bulding the children will find differing tactile, acoustic and visual stimulations. Be it different materials or spacial situations.

KIBE Child Care Centre / Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten - Interior Photography
© Krischner & Oberhofer photography

The general structure of the design treats outdoor space the same as indoor space. Spacious connected areas segue on its margins into linger or retreat alcoves and special designed group areas.

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© Krischner & Oberhofer photography

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Address:Stiftingtalstraße 89, 8010 Graz, Austria

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Cite: "KIBE Child Care Centre / Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten" 28 Jun 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/769251/kibe-child-care-centre-gangoly-and-kristiner-architekten> ISSN 0719-8884

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