Kindergarten, Tárnok

Architect: Ádám Paládi-Kovács
Text: Zoltán Dragon
Photos: Tibor Zsitva

In 2023 the latest newest public building in Tárnok, the Huba Street kindergarten was inaugurated with a capacity for more than 100 children, with four classrooms for activities. According to the designer of the project, Ádám Paládi-Kovács, a building should be fine if it is based on the spirit of the place and the environment, reflecting on it, while respecting itself and its own time. The layout of the nursery including the kitchen connected to the corridor, is almost 1,000 square metres. Functionalist in style, the building is made up of simple geometric shapes, its role and function defining its forms. While the cube of the building is covered by a semi-shingled roof slightly is raised on the main façade to emphasize the entrance and the public character of the building, the facade viewed from the other side from the football field appears almost subordinate. Here runs the corridor that connects the kindergarten abd the nursery on the same site, which both visually and acoustically separates the two areas of the group rooms that require silence as opposed to the louder events taking place in the sports field. In the administrative zone area the openings are visually connected by a vertical row of wooden shading components to lend the building a coherent overall external appearance. The undulating white blocks of the nursery are articulated with coloured inlay elements in a plastered architecture which is spiced up with playfulness by the bright palettes of the group rooms.

Lead architect: Ádám Paládi-Kovács DLA
Fellow architects: Anna Lami, Bálint Sándor
Rehabilitation: Henriett Szabó
Fire protection: László Szaladják
Structure: József Kálmán
HVAC: Péter Kauderer
Electrical engineering: Csaba Gali
Client: Municipality of Tárnok