New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
24/04/2024.
[Munich] Germany
metalocus, ANTONIO CORREDERA
metalocus, ANTONIO CORREDERA
Architecture practice Kéré Architecture announces a new project, a new vertical childcare centre located in the middle of Munich’s Technical University (TUM) dense urban campus, to be built in wood, and allow students’ children to be cared for in a high-quality environment.
The daycare centre will be called "Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM" after the project’s financial patron. The ground-breaking ceremony was on April 18 on the plot at Gabelsbergerstrasse 41, directly between the TUM main campus and the university canteen.
From the end of 2025, there will be space for 60 children with 700 square meters at their disposal. Kéré Architecture has designed the building’s interior, where children will find a series of spaces of various scales to spark creativity. Slides connect several floors, and the façade of the building highlights the playful energy of children.
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El estudio de arquitectura Kéré Architecture anuncia un nuevo proyecto, una nueva guardería vertical ubicada en medio del denso campus urbano de la Universidad Técnica de Múnich (TUM), que se construirá en madera y permitirá que los hijos de los estudiantes sean cuidados en un entorno de alta calidad. .
La guardería se llamará "Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM", en honor al patrocinador financiero del proyecto. La ceremonia de inauguración tuvo lugar el 18 de abril en el solar de Gabelsbergerstrasse 41, justo entre el campus principal de la TUM y el comedor universitario.
A partir de finales de 2025, habrá espacio para 60 niños con 700 metros cuadrados a su disposición. Kéré Architecture ha diseñado el interior del edificio, donde los niños encontrarán una serie de espacios de diversas escalas para despertar la creatividad. Los toboganes conectan varios pisos y la fachada del edificio resalta la energía lúdica de los niños.
The daycare centre will be called "Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM" after the project’s financial patron. The ground-breaking ceremony was on April 18 on the plot at Gabelsbergerstrasse 41, directly between the TUM main campus and the university canteen.
From the end of 2025, there will be space for 60 children with 700 square meters at their disposal. Kéré Architecture has designed the building’s interior, where children will find a series of spaces of various scales to spark creativity. Slides connect several floors, and the façade of the building highlights the playful energy of children.
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El estudio de arquitectura Kéré Architecture anuncia un nuevo proyecto, una nueva guardería vertical ubicada en medio del denso campus urbano de la Universidad Técnica de Múnich (TUM), que se construirá en madera y permitirá que los hijos de los estudiantes sean cuidados en un entorno de alta calidad. .
La guardería se llamará "Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM", en honor al patrocinador financiero del proyecto. La ceremonia de inauguración tuvo lugar el 18 de abril en el solar de Gabelsbergerstrasse 41, justo entre el campus principal de la TUM y el comedor universitario.
A partir de finales de 2025, habrá espacio para 60 niños con 700 metros cuadrados a su disposición. Kéré Architecture ha diseñado el interior del edificio, donde los niños encontrarán una serie de espacios de diversas escalas para despertar la creatividad. Los toboganes conectan varios pisos y la fachada del edificio resalta la energía lúdica de los niños.
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Site plan. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Third floor plan. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Fith floor plan. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
Rendering. New childcare center at Munich’s Technical University by Kéré Architecture
“This building will serve several great purposes: First and foremost, it will help the mothers working at TUM by ensuring that the children are well looked after there during the day. In the company of their peers, they will be encouraged in their development, play, romping, and discovery.”
Ingeborg Pohl.
The building designed by Kéré Architecture will contain five floors, with administration on the ground level. Children‘s facilities are grouped by age across the middle three stories. The top floor is a covered roof terrace where the children can play and enjoy the sheltered outdoor space, with panoramic views across Munich. This outdoor play area will be called Himmelswiese, German for “field of the heavens”.
“When we build for the little ones, we want them to be able to run around outside and feel the elements. I would also like to colonize the neighbouring roofs, starting by connecting our building with the roof of the cafeteria and turning that into a giant meadow.”
Francis Kéré.
The new building within the TUM campus will be built mostly with timber, taking into account local norms and standards for energy efficiency, thermal comfort, fire protection and acoustics. This is aimed at minimizing the building’s carbon footprint while maintaining simple and high-quality construction in line with the philosophy of Kéré Architecture. The studio is collaborating with Austrian firm Hermann Kaufmann + Partner, who are experts in wood construction.
“We wanted to take the sustainability of the building to the extreme and build it entirely out of wood.”
Francis Kéré.
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Architects
Kéré Architecture, Berlin, in cooperation with Hermann Kaufmann + Partner ZT GmbH, Schwarzach.
Collaborators
Structural engineering, fire protection, and building physics.- TUM Prof. Stefan Winter bauart Konstruktions GmbH & Co. KG, Munich.
Energy efficiency.- TUM Prof. Thomas Auer, Munich.
Technical building services.- ITG-Ingenieurgesellschaft für TGA mbH, Munich.
Landscape planning.- JÜHLING & KÖPPEL Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Munich.
Project control and construction management.- GAPP GmbH, Munich.
Energy efficiency.- TUM Prof. Thomas Auer, Munich.
Technical building services.- ITG-Ingenieurgesellschaft für TGA mbH, Munich.
Landscape planning.- JÜHLING & KÖPPEL Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Munich.
Project control and construction management.- GAPP GmbH, Munich.
Client
The Munich Student Union will take over the operation of the daycare center after completion.
Dates
Design / Construction.- 2024.
Location
Munich, Germany.
Diébédo Francis Kéré
Diébédo Francis Kéré (b.1965, in Gando, Burkina Faso, west Africa) trained at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, started his Berlin based practice, Kéré Architecture, in 2005. Kéré Architecture has been recognised nationally and internationally with awards, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004) for his first building, a primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso; LOCUS Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2009); Global Holcim Award Gold (2011 and 2012); Green Planet Architects Award (2013); Schelling Architecture Foundation Award (2014); and the Kenneth Hudson Award –European Museum of the Year (2015).
Projects undertaken by Francis Kéré span countries, including Burkina Faso,Mali, China, Mozambique, Kenya, Togo, Sudan, Germany and Switzerland. He has taught internationally, including the Technical University of Berlin, and he has held professorships at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Accademia di Architettura di Mendriso in Switzerland.
Kéré’s work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions: Radically Simple at the Architecture Museum, Munich (2016) and The Architecture of Francis Kéré: Building for Community, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2016). His work has also been selected for group exhibitions: Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010) and Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy, London (2014).
Among his main works are the Primary School (2001) and the Library (under construction) of Gando, Burkina Faso; the Health and Social Promotion Center (2014) and the Opera Village (under construction), both in Laongo, Burkina Faso; the Satellite of the Volksbühne Theater at the Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin (temporary installation, 2016); or the Pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery of the year 2017.
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