Daycare Center, St. Moritz

Daycare Center KITA, St. Moritz

1st prize in competition

Glued laminated timber beams span the rooms and transfer the forces from the roof into an outer and an inner ring of steel beams or onto one of the three valley beams. The steel beams are supported on glued laminated timber columns made of larch. In the facade plane, the structure is consistently separated between warm and cold. Thus, the facade columns are two-part. The steel beams of the outer ring rest on the inner part of the facade column, while the cantilevered canopy rafters rest on the outer part. In the northern section of the building, a widely cantilevered canopy creates a generous entrance situation. The horizontal loads from wind and earthquake are collected by the roof diaphragm and transferred through timber element walls into the frost beams and further into the ground. The building is founded on a ground slab and frost beams in cast-in-place concrete using shallow foundations.