Mid of century Church turns into a fun, furnished nursery school in Münster

BOLLES + WILSON took the first in a competition to come up with a creative and dedicated transformation of St. Sebastian Church in kindergartens in 2009. Their plan to transform the Church of 1962 was based on using the existing elliptical shape, and the company tried dotted beat facade window. The lower levels holding a kindergarten with three groups-room on the ground floor and two groups in the first floor. The roofs of these floors will all weather play decks, which is covered in the sports area flooring. This space is neither heated nor cooled and remains to be a protected space for children to play.

Original 50 x 50 cm openings in the facade were transformed into operable Windows to provide natural ventilation. The original roof of the Deconsecrated Church had to be replaced in any case, skylights great to the new roof pull daylight down into the game room. Access to the kindergarten is reached by a new ground floor volume, holding a parent waiting area, kitchen, offices, a multi-purpose room and a technical room. Turned around the Church nursery is a playground.

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Images c S. AAF Dornseif / R. Wakonigg, ch. Judges, M. Hauschild

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