Kindergarten Rosenlächerstraße, Lustenau (AT)
New building
Client: Market town of Lustenau
Location: A-6890 Lustenau, Rosenlächerstraße 14
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Competition: 1997, 1. prize
Construction: 1998 – 1999 Area: 965 m²
Photos: Bruno Klomfar, Ignacio Martinez
Team
Heike Schlauch (Project management)
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Statics: Mader & Flatz, Bregenz
Building services: teamgmi, Dornbirn
Electrics: Hecht, Rankweil
Construction management: Huber, Lustenau
Awards
- BTV Bauherrenpreis, Nomination
For children's urge to move
The elongated group room wing with the short, transverse head section is located in the centre of a loosely built-up area of detached houses. A frame of wide panes on the south side unites the wing into a whole and creates a loggia-like transition area to the garden.
The three group rooms are divided into several sections. Each one has its own cloakroom, accessible from the rear corridor and with an exit to the garden terrace. The facility offers the children various types of rooms as experience spaces with different room heights and levels.

The two-storey head building to the east houses the gymnastics hall, which is sunk into the ground, while the children's kitchen and workroom are located on the mezzanine floor above.

Room to let off steam
The facility offers the children a range of different types of rooms to experience, as well as different room heights and levels. The group rooms are divided into two areas of different heights. In the higher part, a false ceiling provides a lower room below as a place of retreat and a viewing platform above for curious observers.
Probably the most unusual room element is the over 40 metre long corridor with the niches in front of the cloakrooms. The extreme longitudinal expansion offers the children plenty of prizes to fulfil their urge to move, even in bad weather. The north-facing glazing on the long side prevents any feeling of constriction.

