The nursery on Hamburg?s northeast side occupies a large site where the children can play amid mature trees. The relationship to nature is an important part of the school?s pedagogic concept.

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Architects: KRAUS SCHÖNBERG ARCHITEKTEN

Location: Hamburg, Germany

Area: 420.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Hagen Stier

Main Contractor: Bauwerft

Façade: Martin T. Lacher Glasermeiste

Structure: Cornelius Back

© Hagen Stier

 The nursery on Hamburg?s northeast side occupies a large site where the children can play amid mature trees. The relationship to nature is an important part of the school?s pedagogic concept.
© Hagen Stier

The building integrates in the small-scale fabric of neighboring sin¬gle-family homes: the build¬ing mass has been apportioned in smaller subunits which are linked by open courtyards.

Plan

Each of the classrooms has an adjoining quiet room and lavatory. Classrooms, kitchen and the auxiliary spaces are grouped around a shared space for active play. At the centre of the nursery is an atrium that brings daylight into the interiors. The surrounding corridor? reminiscent of a clois¬ter ? is used for circulation, interaction and links all programmatic functions. It is spatially and acoustically uncoupled by...