Duisburg, Germany

SOS Children's Village

Design Project Final Bachelor's Project 2021/2022

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Final Bachelor's Project

A safe haven for families.

The task was to create an urban Children's Village with a daycare center and an office department that integrates well into the spatial needs of the people living in the Dell neighborhood. While the building makes its presence known, it is in no way overpowering existing structures in the vicinity. On the contrary, the warm brick tones blend in well with other close-by brickwork buildings and the block-like appearance almost heals the fragmented urban blocks. The somewhat L-shaped building is situated along the road in the north and west to create several protected courtyards to the south. One of those publically accessible and inviting with lush greenery and a café, the other one closed off for the daycare center.

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Site Plans

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The building plot - currently a parking lot - used to be a traditional urban block structure. Keeping in mind that the block remnants can still be perceived, the planned building closes the block gap by situating itself outwards along the roads.
Towards the crossroad, a higher cube is emphasizing the area while along the road a lower, triangular mass is cutting into it. At the intersection of the two buildings, an entrance gesture is created. The building is further sectioned into multiple areas depending on the internal usage.

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View from the crossroad.

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2nd and 3rd Floor

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1st Floor

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Ground Floor

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Basement

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South Elevation

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West and East Elevation

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North Elevation

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Section and Elevation Detail

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Daycare center courtyard.

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View from the Children's Village apartments.

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Site Model in 1:500

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Building Model in 1:100

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Facade Model in 1:20

Schwarzplan Lageplan

Site Plans

Picto1 Picto2 Picto3 Picto4 Picto5 Picto6

The building plot - currently a parking lot - used to be a traditional urban block structure.
Keeping in mind that the block remnants can still be perceived, the planned building
closes the block gap by situating itself outwards along the roads. Towards the crossroad,
a higher cube is emphasizing the area while along the road a lower, triangular mass is cutting into it.
At the intersection of the two buildings, an entrance gesture is created.
The building is further sectioned into multiple areas depending on the internal usage.

Perse_Kreuzung

View from the crossroad.

Grundriss_2OG_3OG

Children's Village apartments
38 Children's Village Mother/Father | 39 Bathroom | 40 Common area | 41 Office/Bedroom | 42 Children's room | 43 Loggia | 44 Laundry/storage room | 45 Kitchen | 46 Living room

2nd and 3rd Floor

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SOS-Children's Village office department
5 Multi-function and education room | 6 Multi-function room education centre | 7 Office consultancy and education | 8 Office education centre | 9 Cooperation partners | 10 Coworking space | 11 Multi-function room open work
12 Counter | 13 Group space consultancy/education | 14 Consultancy | 15 Toilet facilities | 16 Group space open work | 17 Meeting room management/administration | 18 Management | 19 Administration

Daycare center
20 Group space | 21 Sleeping room | 22 Toilet facilities | 23 Storage room | 24 Secondary group space | 25 Cloakroom | 26 Supply room | 27 Craft room | 28 Kitchenette | 29 Consultation room
30 Therapy room | 31 Multi-function room | 32 Cleaning room | 33 Administration office | 34 Cleaning space | 35 Play corridor | 36 Tool shed | 37 Daycare courtyard

1st Floor

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Public Space
1 Children's clothing store | 2 Counter | 3 Café | 4 Courtyard

Ground Floor

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47 Storage room Clothing store | 48 Storage room Café | 49 Toilet facilities | 50 Storage room open work/administration | 51 Bike storage room | 52 Changing room for employees
53 Ventilation room | 54 Heating | 55 House service technology room

Basement

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West and East Elevation

North Elevation

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Roof construction
1 Sheet metal | 2 Vegetation | 3 Roof garden soil 60mm | 4 Drainage web 35mm | 5 Polymer bitumen strip, 2-layered | 6 Insulation 150mm | 7 Moisture barrier | 8 Concrete ceiling 250mm | 9 Plaster 10mm | 10 Sound absorbing baffles, wood

Slanted facade construction
11 Brick slips | 12 Steel anchoring | 13 Air layer, structural, >/=40mm | 14 Insulation 105mm | 15 Polymer bitumen strip | 16 Vertically perforated brick, insulated | 17 Insulation 55mm

Facade construction
18 Rear-ventilated wall, brickwork, stretcher bond, normal format 105mm | 19 Anchoring with restraining bolts | 20 Air layer 40mm | 14 Insulation 105mm | 21 Load-bearing wall, brickwork, normal format 240mm | 22 Isokorb

Floor construction upper floor
23 Screed 60mm | 24 Seperating layer | 25 Heat conducting plates | 26 Floor heating build in insulation system 85mm | 27 Insulation 90mm | 28 Concrete ceiling 225mm

Floor construction ground floor
23 Screed 60mm | 24 Seperating layer | 25 Heat conducting plates | 26 Floor heating build in insulation system 85mm | 29 Insulation 100mm | 30 Moisture barrier | 31 Reinforced concrete floor slab 250mm | 32 Lean concrete 50mm
33 Capillary breaking layer 120mm | 34 Perimeter insulation 95mm

Section and Elevation Detail

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Daycare center courtyard.

Perse_Wohnen

View from the Children's Village apartments.

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Site Model in 1:500

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Building Model in 1:100

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Facade Model in 1:20

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Currently in Zurich, Switzerland

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