Kindergarten of German School of Athens

Kindergarten | of German School
  • German Design Award Special Mention 2018
  • WAC Awards 2018
  • A+ Award Popular Choice Winner 2016
  • 2015 Mies Van der Rohe Award Nomination-European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
  • Domes Awards, Honorary Mention, Best built work 2010-14

The project regards the extension and renovation of an existing educational building and its surrounding landscape. The programmatic arrangement is expressed visually on each façade; on one side, six classrooms are developed in a direct relationship with the exterior space, while on the other side, other main and supporting functions are located. The design addresses the Kindergarten as an “object/toy” in a scale of 1:1 shaped by white and wooden parts that has sought inspiration in the “modules” of a “Lego” type system that, when added together they formulate the final composition.

Client: German School of Athens
Location: Maroussi, Athens, Greece
Photographs: Charalambos Louizidis, Katerina Glinou
Design: 2012-2013
Construction: 2013-2014
Area: 640 m2

The project regards the extension and renovation of an existing educational building and its surrounding landscape. The design addresses the Kindergarten as an “object/toy” in a scale of 1:1 shaped by white and wooden parts that has sought inspiration in the “modules” of a “Lego” type system.
Kindergarten of German School of Athens
The design addresses the Kindergarten as an “object/toy” in a scale of 1:1 shaped by white and wooden parts that has sought inspiration in the “modules” of a “Lego” type system.
The design addresses the Kindergarten as an “object/toy” in a scale of 1:1 shaped by white and wooden parts that has sought inspiration in the “modules” of a “Lego” type system.
Kindergarten, German_School_of_Athens, Potiropoulos+Partners, Renovation
The design addresses the Kindergarten as an “object/toy” in a scale of 1:1 shaped by white and wooden parts that has sought inspiration in the “modules” of a “Lego” type system.