칠드런홈은 어린이들의 열린교육 및 막힘없는 소통, 사회관계형성을 위한 장으로 제안된다. 이를 위해 다양한 활동공간; 교육공간과 아이들의 개인적인 거주공간을 확보한다. (유아실은 도로로부터 이격, 내부 정원과 놀이터에 연접한다. 이와 반대로 청소년실은 최 외곽부에 위치, 도로 및 외부와 연접된다.) 먼저 안락하고 포근한 집과 같은 공간 연출을 위해 덴마크 내 전형적인 주거를 모티브로 하는 박공지붕 및 지붕창을 연속시킨다. 기본 프로파일의 리드믹컬한 디자인 구성은 각 공간에 대한 채광 및 전망확보를 위한 건축적 장치로 활용되며 여기 케어센터를 캐릭터화하는 주요한 디자인 요소로 표현된다. 특히 다양성과 기능성을 확보한 플렉서블 스페이스는 폭넓은 응용공간을 창출한다. 독서, 영화감상, 숙제를 위한 작업실, 미술실, 공작실, 페스티발을 위한 공용실과 같이 다양한 쓰임새로 변형, 적용된다. 아이들의 미래를 위한 케어센터; 칠드런 홈은 아이들에게 구김없는 행복한 공간을 선물한다.
reviewed by SJ,오사
The Children’s Home of the Future – designed in Kerteminde by Danish architecture studio Cebra – combines the traditional home’s safe environment with new pedagogical ideas and conceptions of what a modern children’s home is and which needs it should fulfil.
The vision for the new institution is to establish a care centre that encourages social relations and a sense of community while at the same time accommodating the children’s individual needs – a place that they are proud to call their home and prepares them for their future path in life in the best possible way. The physical surroundings reflect a practice-oriented pedagogic approach so that the architecture actively supports the staff’s daily work with children, who struggle with behavioural, social and mental health problems.
Program: care centre
Architects: Cebra
Landscape architect: PK3
Engineer: Søren Jensen
Client: Kerteminde Municipality
Area: 1,500 sqm
Completion: 2014
Whether you look at children’s drawings or a web browser’s stylised icon, at all ages we recognise and use the rectangular pitched-roof building with a chimney as a sign for “home”. It is the visual essence of the functions it contains – both literally and symbolically.
The design for the new children’s home takes the familiar basic shapes of the typical Danish home as its natural starting point: the classic pitched-roof house and the dormer motif. The two elements are used in their most simplified form to create a recognisable exterior appearance and integrate the building into the surrounding residential area. They make up the project’s underlying architectural DNA, which expresses inclusion, diversity and an atmosphere of safety.
By combining and applying the basic elements in a new and playful way the care centre is highlighted as an extraordinary place with its own identity. The basic geometric shape is modified by the distinctive dormer profiles, which grow into and out of the building volume, are turned upside down and even rise up to form a view point.
The concept adds spatial variation and functional flexibility to the interior organisation. The dormers give the residents the opportunity to set their own mark on the building by involving them in the arrangement, décor and use of these “bonus spaces” according to varying needs and changing activities. The varying sizes and orientations allow for a wide range of applications such as reading and movie corners, a study for homework, areas for painting and crafting, common rooms for festive events etc.
The overall organisation consists of four interconnected houses. The elongated wings of the traditional institutional building are split up and contracted to form a compact building with offset volumes. Thereby, the building scale is reduced and self-contained, varied units are created for the different groups of residents. Each age group has its own house in connection with a central unit for flexible use. The layout aims at providing the residents with a sense of belonging to their unit – a homely base where they can retreat alone or in smaller groups.
The smaller children’s units are retracted from the street and oriented towards the garden with direct access to the playground. The central unit contains the main entrance in connection with the parking lot, which gives the staff an overview of arriving visitors and deliveries without affecting the housing units. The teenagers’ unit is the most extrovert section of the building and is oriented towards the street. The older residents are encouraged to use the city and engage in social activities on equal terms with their peers.
Typical institutional functions such as administration, staff rooms and storage are mostly located in the basement and on the first floor so that they get “lifted” out of the resident’s everyday life and minimise the feeling of being in an institution.
The building’s rational organization ensures short distances and proximity between the different units so that the personnel always are close to every resident. Thus, the personnel’s working procedures are incorporated effectively in the daily routines, thereby freeing more time for taking care of and spending time with the children – more home, less institution.
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