As of: January 19, 2024, 3:16 p.m
By: Sebastian Grauvogl
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Still being revised: the draft for the extension (left) to the Fischbachau kindergarten.
Graphic: WerkbUREAU Architects © Werkbureau Architects
A cut roof with too few windows: The architect's design for the extension of the Catholic kindergarten in Fischbachau caused criticism in the local council.
Fischbachau
- For a long time, no one thought that the children's castle in Fischbachau might one day become too small.
Apparently not even the architects of the Catholic kindergarten that opened at the end of 1975 themselves. The existing building with 50 places in two groups was designed as a self-contained unit and therefore does not offer any expansion option, Mayor Stefan Deingruber (CSU) now told the local council.
In order to still be able to accommodate the planned two new groups there, the Hohenreiter works office has now suggested placing the new building at the “only sensible docking point” – the entrance area.
From there there is central access to the group rooms.
Deingruber did not leave out why other variants were ruled out from the architect's perspective.
An extension on the garden side of the kindergarten would not be recommended because it would otherwise block direct access to the outdoor area.
A free-standing house in the garden, on the other hand, would have required an underground connection.
The two new rooms would then have had to be arranged either next to each other (taking up a lot of space) or one above the other (with a corresponding height).
According to the planners, both are of little use for the planned use.
Plans have already been coordinated with the district office
The plans that have now been presented with the docking of the extension building at the entrance area have already been coordinated in advance with the district office, which is responsible for issuing the operating license, and have also been presented to the respective funding bodies.
According to planners, the cost estimate for the wooden construction is around 1.615 million euros, Deingruber said.
The local councils now had to decide whether to approve the planning and to authorize the administration to tender the property planning in the form of a step-by-step contract to the procurement center of the Oberland municipal services association.
But they haven't given the green light yet.
The reason: the design of the roof.
According to the draft, this would be “blended” with the existing stock.
Some local councilors did not like this or the lack of roof windows for better lighting.
The costs for the initial furnishing of the new rooms also appeared to be too low.
Decision postponed
Although the exact design in phases one and two actually only plays a subordinate role according to building authority manager Joseph Soyer, after the critical discussion in the local council, the mayor suggested postponing the vote on the agenda item and asking the architectural office to incorporate the suggestions into the planning to ask.
An approach that the local councilors could also follow.
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