Munich’s Kunstareal is set to receive another architectural highlight. The renowned architect Francis Kéré will build a new daycare center on Gabelsbergerstrasse, between the TUM main campus and the cafeteria.
The design consists of a structural timber construction with a folded slatted façade made of Corten steel. A play area of around 700 square meters will be created on five floors. There will be space for up to 60 children. On the roof, there will be the opportunity to let off steam on a “sky meadow”. This will create an outdoor area with a difference. All of this should be possible from the end of 2025. The ground-breaking ceremony took place on Thursday, April 18, 2024.
Kéré is working together with architect and TUM professor Hermann Kaufmann. As the former holder of the Chair of Design and Timber Construction and winner of the 2017 German Architecture Prize, Kaufmann is responsible for the implementation planning of the children’s oasis.
The architect Francis Kéré was awarded the Pritzker Prize, the “Nobel Prize for Architects”, in 2022. The Burkina Faso-born Baumeister designs buildings using traditional building materials and state-of-the-art engineering technology. His buildings are not only architecturally outstanding, but also always have a social background. Since 2017, he has been passing on his knowledge to students as part of his professorship in “Design and Participation” at TUM.
The daycare center will bear the name of the generous building owner Ingeborg Pohl, more precisely Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM. The benefactor Ingeborg Pohl has been an Honorary Senator of TUM since 2016 and loves to take projects into her own hands and implement them.
Another successful kindergarten project is the Redbridge school and kindergarten in Lisbon von Arx.
