Waldorf Kindergarten Kleinmachnow

The new Waldorf kindergarten is part of the overall Waldorf campus on the Seeberg due to its structural and landscape-related form: the angular, extensively landscaped building nestles around the large oak tree and forms a courtyard that faces the orchard and the school. The spacious terrace looks like a landscape stage and is an extended outdoor space for the kindergarten as a play area.



The garden consists of three parallel layers: the terrace, the play meadow and the play strip, as well as a near-natural forest playground as the southern end to the forest.



The forecourt with the main entrance, the service yard, bicycle and car parking spaces, integrated into existing and newly planted vegetation structures, form a functionally and creatively appealing entrance to the new kindergarten.



The three building complexes Hakeburg, International School and Waldorf School are like self-sufficient islands in the large landscape of the Seeberg. They each have their own architectural identity. The new Waldorf kindergarten is part of the overall Waldorf school complex due to its structural form: the angular building nestles around the large oak tree and forms a courtyard that faces the orchard and the school.



Like an orangery, the house opens onto this garden and the beautiful landscape. The large canopy protects the wooden structure and creates a loggia. The spacious terrace made of robinia wood acts like a landscape stage with views of the campus and is an extended outdoor space for the kindergarten as a play area.



Adjacent to the terrace, the garden consists of a spacious meadow that invites children to play, in which the protected oak tree is integrated and a play band that runs from north to south: From the toddler play area in the north via swing areas to a multifunctional space with a playhouse and a plum tree in the transition area to the Waldorf school. Further south, there is a mud playground that merges into the natural area by the forest via a planted play hill.



In contrast to the open façade facing the landscape, a protective backdrop is created towards the parking lot of the international school and the planned traffic structure on the Hochwald road. The natural timber façade with the extensively greened roof becomes an integral part of the natural landscape.



The bluntly angled structure opens up the view from the existing forest path into the street space. The angled structure allows many of the existing trees to be preserved. This creates a green buffer between the kindergarten and the new busy road.



The entrance to the kindergarten faces away from the road and is oriented towards the wedge-shaped green space between the orchard and the new road. The forecourt with the main entrance is connected to a service yard with bicycle parking spaces and a garbage area integrated by a wooden and steel pergola as well as "forest-like" parking spaces. The brick wall of the Waldorf Campus was renovated in the area of the kindergarten and supplemented with a gate system based on the façade design of the building with wooden cladding made of untreated and rough-sawn Douglas fir slats.