The kindergarten is located close to the river Danube, surrounded by ten-storey block of flats from the socialist panel program. While preserving the existing two-storey, panel kindergarten building of the 1980s, the modernisation and expansion has given the kindergarten a new and integral identity. The group rooms were extended towards the garden completed with a two-storey, covered, wooden outdoor playground in front. The building opens up under the new roof’s outline and compensates the shut and rigid environment of the prefabricated panel blocks. Due to the proximity of the Danube, this institution is a good example of linking the sustainability concept – based on the theme of water utilization-, environmental education and architecture in an inspiring way.

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Location – The building is located in a housing estate near the Danube in Hungary, north of Budapest. The kindergarten and other social institutions are lined up in the center of this housing estate, surrounded by ten-story houses and isolated from the surrounding car traffic. The whole area was built in the second half of the 1980s as part of the socialist panel program.

Building – The original building was a two-story and eight-room kindergarten. It was a type design that was placed on many similar housing estates. It was built of prefabricated reinforced concrete elements and concrete panels according to the technological possibilities of that time.