With a primary focus on schools, kindergartens and housing design, (se)arch Architekten, a German architectural firm, based in Stuttgart, shared with us their proposal for an elementary school and kindergarten which won the first prize in an international competition. Situated in Uhland Park, in the outskirts of Tübingen, south of the Neckar River Channel and neighbouring the Lindenbrunnen Elementary School building, the two squared-plan volumes are designed as a replacement to the existing school. More images and architects‘ description after the break.
Responding to its function and taking into account the perception and identity of the child, the two units have varying heights; the slightly higher building accommodates am elementary school for grades 1 through 4, whereas the smaller unit acting as the kindergarten serves 3 groups of children. The two units have been designed in the form of ‘houses’ to help the children feel the relation of their homes to the public playing/learning space.
