아테네 독일인 유치원을 눈여겨 봐야할 특징은 그 공간이 지닌 기능에 한정되지 않다. 어린 학생들이 누릴 다양한 행위를 제공하는 공간으로써 이 곳이 지닌 가치 외에도, 아동들의 상호소통적인 관계를 형성하는데 필요한 다양한 물질의 기호학적 시스템을 겸비한 곳이라는 점에서도 여기는 눈여겨 볼만하다.
건축학적 공간으로서 느슨하게 나태하지도 않았고, 또한 공간을 이해하기 위해 기하학적으로 측정하는 데 부족하다는 입장을 기반으로 접근할 수 있으나, 대조적으로 이 곳은 내부적이면서도 내재적이고 인간의 일상 한 부분을 변형한 형태를 하고 있다.
The Kindergarten of the German School of Athens is addressed not merely as function - as by convention we know - but as contributor to the actions of the small pupils, as material semiotic system involved with them through a network of interactive relationships. This is an approach which is based on the stance that architectural space is not idle, that is not sufficient to measure it geometrically in order to understand it. On the contrary, it constitutes an internal, inherent and transformable part of human daily life.
FIRM: Potiropoulos+Partners
TYPE: Educational › Nursery
STATUS: Built
YEAR: 2014
The established "neutral" proposals for preschool facilities that we know of in our country seem correct in one sense: about what they say; but what they omit, is the most important. They are proposals based on "logic", "order" and "safety", but they are not proposals for running, for carefree wandering, for fruitful "contrasts", for situations "out of control". Thus, a need emerges: "to think the 'unthinkable'," as E. Grosz writes, "to imagine an architecture "outside" the boundaries of until now".
The architectural synthesis focuses on the experience that the children will gain through their cognitive and emotional correlation with the building. Thus, it introduces a new, "small geography" of the world, an unexplored "place of miracles". The design addresses the Kindergarten as an object/toy in a scale of 1:1. The volumetric, shaped by white (main building body) and wooden parts (semi-open spaces), has sought inspiration in the modules of a "Lego" type system that, when added together, formulate the final composition.
The Kindergarten of the German School of Athens was nominated by Mies Van der Rohe Foundation for the "2015 Mies Van der Rohe Awards - European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture". Moreover, it was awarded with Honorable Mention in "2015 Domes Awards" for the category "Best Built Work of the years 2010-2014".
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