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Children's Home of the Future  

Children's Home of the Future

Kerteminde, Denmark

Finalist, 2015 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Community
Project Featured on Feb 23, 2015
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Children's Home of the Future

Kerteminde, Denmark

Finalist, 2015 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Community
Project Featured on Feb 23, 2015
Firm
CEBRA
Type
Educational › Other
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The Children’s Home of the Future is a pioneering project for a new type of 24-hour care centre for marginalized children and teenagers. The vision for the new institution is to establish a care centre that encourages social relations and a sense of community while at the same time accommodating the children’s individual needs – a place that they are proud to call their home and prepares them for their future path in life in the best possible way. The project combines the traditional home’s safe environment with new pedagogical ideas and conceptions of what a modern children’s home is and which needs it should fulfil.

The architectural design concept plays with familiar elements and shapes to create a homely and including environment. The design is based on the familiar basic shapes of the typical Danish home: the classic pitched-roof house and the dormer windows. The two elements are used in their most simplified form to create a recognisable exterior appearance and integrate the building into the surrounding residential area.

By combining and applying the basic elements in a new and playful way the care centre is highlighted as an extraordinary place with its own identity. The basic geometric shape is modified by the distinctive dormer profiles in order to add spatial variation and functional flexibility to the interior organisation. The varying sizes and orientations of these “bonus spaces” allow for a wide range of applications.

The elongated wings of the traditional institutional building are split up and contracted to form a compact building with offset volumes and to reduce the building scale. The overall organisation provides each age group with a self-contained, varied unit or its own “house” in connection with a central unit for flexible use. The layout aims at providing the residents with a sense of belonging to their unit – a homely base where they can retreat alone or in smaller groups, thus establishing a care centre, which is more home and less institution.

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