Danish architects COBE have completed a new daycare center in Copenhagen with curved corners, lush roof gardens and a special brick facade
that gives the building a warm modern feel and at the same time reflects its historic surroundings.
Five small houses with a unique brick cladding and green roofs and roof gardens create the framework for Copenhagen’s new kindergarten. The
kindergarten opened its doors in July 2014 and is the result of a competition held in 2012 won by Danish architects COBE in collaboration with
PK3 landscape architects and D.A.I. engineers.
COBE的创始人Dan Stubbergaard提到他们希望通过这个项目创造出世界级水平的幼儿日间护理中心，让孩子在最佳的环境中学习，创造，成长。
幼儿园所在地区是哥本哈根老人院和老年社区集中的地方，因此设计也竭力让幼儿园与周围环境保持协调。很多人选择在这里度过自己的晚年，导
致的结果是这些人的儿孙辈们也在这里成长，开展自己的新生活。该地区的特点是历史悠久，到处可见红砖建筑。新幼儿园采用了统一的色彩，但
是有对不同的是，建筑没有采用传统红砖，而是用了垂直长条的薄砖。这种材料覆盖建筑的外表皮，也延生成为幼儿园庭院围墙。其通透的栅栏式
结构允许光与风的通过。这所采用现代语言诠释的幼儿园成功的与地区保持连贯性，并来带全新的语言。
”With this project, we wanted to create a world class day care center. A place that gives the best possible environment for our children to grow
up in, and which promotes children’s learning and creativity. Located in a historic area of Copenhagen consisting mainly of nursing homes and
senior housing, we have been very aware of ensuring a coherence between the historical area and the new build. From being a last destination for
many people’s long lives, the area is now also a place where children grow up and start their lives,” says Dan Stubbergaard, Founder and Creative
Director of COBE.
Dan Stubbergaard continues: “It is a sensitive art adding new to old in a historic area. First of all we wanted to understand the area’s characteristics
and then we wanted to strengthen it but at the same time create something new and contrasting. The facade of the kindergarten is for example a
clear reference to the area’s red brick buildings. Instead of using traditional horizontal bricks, the facade consists of vertical brick lamellae
continuing as a band from house to house, and surrounding the garden and playground. Besides being the building’s envelope, the facade thus
works as a fence for the playground, protection at the roof tops and solar screening in front of the windows. The facade gives a uniform expression
and at the same time creates a modern interpretation and coherence with the area.” He continues: “The goal was to create a house that not only
understands and shows consideration for its surroundings, but also contributes something radically new and different.”
这座容纳了160位0--6岁幼童的幼儿园由5栋1--3层小建筑组成，每一个小建筑都拥有绿色屋顶和屋顶花园。从外面看幼儿园这里宛如一个统一高效
的儿童村落---小型，紧凑，灵活，日常，精彩
The kindergarten consists of five small houses in one to three floors - all with green roofs and roof gardens. From the outside the kindergarten
appears as a village for children, but from the inside it is coherent and efficient. This helps to create a place that is small, compact and exciting for
children as well as functional and flexible in everyday life.
The kindergarten opened its doors in July 2014 and now houses 160 children aged 0-6 years.。
