Day Nursery in Memmingen

After its conversion, the former villa is scarcely recognizable today. What remains of the previous building, plus the new spaces, are enclosed within a partly double-skin polycarbonate facade.
In her will, the entrepreneur Karoline Goldhofer decreed that a day nursery should be created on the site of her villa, which was situated on the edge of an industrial area. Instead of demolishing the existing building, which was clearly too small for its new function, the architects, Jörg Heiler and Peter Geiger, simply removed a few linking tracts and the low-pitched...
After its conversion, the former villa is scarcely recognizable today. What remains of the previous building, plus the new spaces, are enclosed within a partly double-skin polycarbonate facade.