Hermansson Hiller Lundberg Arkitekter
Eldstaden Preschool
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Place
Falkenberg, Sweden
Studio
Photos
Johan Dehlin
Description
The basic building block of the preschool for 120
children in Falkenberg, built from 2019 to 2022, is a module comprising two
grouped wards, combined with shared service areas such as sheltered exterior
sleeping porches, a studio and cloakrooms. The wards are laid out along a
meandering walkway, interspersed with top-lit internal plazas. The building as
a whole is composed of interconnecting wood-clad volumes in different muted
primary colours with pitched roofs. These volumes have symmetrical compositions
but are connected with adjoining volumes which ambiguously mediate between the
colours and forms. The primal forms, ornamental details and crayon colours
combine to create childlike neoclassical motifs. The resulting complex is orderly
yet suffused with emotion and playfulness.