As a not-to-be-built project, the topic was that to design a kindergarten not in an ordinary way. The design group was forced to avoid that kind of method in the design process which would have led us to the prussian education system.

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The construction site was located in Érd, not too far from Budapest, Hungary. This suburban area is really heterogeneous, thanks to the proximity of the capital. On the site there was an othe kindergarten which couldn't meet the modern requrements, neither in a structural or in a constructional way.

At the begining my first discovery was that the function could be built up in a linear system. This led me to find a material, which gave me the conception: this was the rope. After that when I started to analyze the behaviour of the function I realized that as a child it is the first step to become the part of the society. So it couldn't be possible to leave the linear system in the plan, we needed a knot to create a space. This is the core of the building.

After the examination of the site it was obvious for me to handle with the problematic of the stair in the gound. So in the first couple of versions my "rope or snake" climbed to the terrain, as a green roof. It became the base of the concept: boxes with the function and above that there is a heavy, caring roof. 

The volume became closed to that directions which ones are too crowded. So the plan and the elevations are mainly opened to the south which is also really advantageous to the goup rooms. The green roof became too monumental after a while, so I felt I need to break it, that is why there were 3 semi-opened areas in the plan which helped to give some place where the children could play in a rainy weather also.