Company Daycare Center for Steelcase in Rosenheim

The organically curved daycare center represents an alternative world to the more sober purposeful architecture of its surroundings: a free-flowing, single-story building that lies in the meadow like a solitary gem. The organic formal vocabulary is also repeated within the interior spaces, which are shaped by offset, curved wood-clad walls.

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These give the children protection and security on one side and they open up on other side to a shared internal space. The generous spaces between the curved elements afford many visual connections to the outside.

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Competition
11 2007 / 1st prize

Start of planning
12 2007

Completion
09 2009

Client
Steelcase AG, Rosenheim

Location
Georg-Aicher-Straße 7, 83026 Rosenheim

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Construction costs
ca. 0,7 Mio. Euros

Planning team
Ingmar Menzer, Kristina Herberg

Local construction management
Volker Schultze-Naumburg, Übersee

Structure planning
Weischede, Herrmann & Partner, Beratende Ingenieure, Stuttgart

HVS planning
IWP Ingenieurbüro für Systemplanung, Stuttgart

Electrical planning
Planungsbüro für Elektrotechnik Wolfgang Hauger, Ludwigsburg

Building physics
BBI Bayer Bauphysik Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Fellbach

Graphics (animal motifs)
Cathrin Walczyk, London

Photos
© Zooey Braun

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