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Kuhn Lehmann

Kinderhaus Franziskus Day Care Centre . Stuttgart

Kuhn Lehmann . Kinderhaus Franziskus Day Care Centre . Stuttgart (1)

Kuhn und Lehmann Architekten . photos: © Achim Birnbaum . + competitionline

The Kinderhaus Franziskus is a three-group day care centre for children from 0-6 years. The main three story cube is made of timber frame walls. The wrapped around steel-construction with prefab cocrete floors serves as escape balconies and gives constructive wood protection to the inner fassade. Contrasting the more rustic timber layer of the inner fassade, the white coloured steelwork with its sun protection panels on the west side has a much lighter and ethereal appearance.
The differenciated doube layered fassade takes the context into account as it seems to back off the existing church building. Continue reading Kuhn Lehmann