A vibrant, exciting cubature, inclusion in a park-like setting, and the creation of a pleasant atmosphere for children and teachers—these are the parameters of our new cafeteria building for Ecole Voltaire in Berlin-A vibrant, exciting cubature, inclusion in a park-like setting, and the creation of a pleasant atmosphere for children and teachers—these are the parameters of our new cafeteria building for Ecole Voltaire in Berlin-Tiergarten. On the narrow, elongated building site, a differentiated building emerged that is reminiscent of an architectural landscape. As a result, the building appears warm, inviting, light, and playful.

The cafeteria is built as a timber frame construction. This type of construction is ideally suited for small-scale and complex spatial schemes such as this one: it is efficient, flexible, and environmentally sustainable—and thus enables a high-quality and aesthetic design.

At the beginning, there was a tender with special conditions: for cost reasons, the client invited tenders exclusively from system builders. But what was desired was much too demanding, complex, and unique to be implemented solely with prefabricated room modules. For this reason, we persuaded the client of the merits of the timber frame construction, which makes differentiation and architectural design possible, and at the same is time cost-effective.