Reconstruction socio-educational youth residence u-turn in Obertrum

A NEW FEELING OF LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOCIAL-PEDAGAL RESIDENTIAL CARE The child and youth welfare organization “Rettet das Kind” offers 9 residential facilities in the province of Salzburg. One of these is the youth hostel in Obertrum – which provides socio-educational residential care for 8 young people with difficult family backgrounds. In 2019, the board of “Rettet das Kind Salzburg” approached us to redesign, modernize and restructure their outdated youth residence in Obertrum. The ground floor and first floor were occupied, but everything was too small. The basement was used only for storage, the attic was completely unused. So there is potential for expansion. We have structured the building in such a way that daily communal life continues to take place on the first floor and the upper floor houses the young people’s private rooms. We were able to create more space by moving the entrance, locker rooms, theme recreation and sports to the basement, which, however, now has the appearance of a first floor thanks to the excavation of a shrub slope in the hillside. From here you can access a small inner courtyard, which we have converted into a leisure and basketball court. The previously unused attic was made usable by raising the roof truss by 75 cm. It offers space for a quiet office for the home manager, a larger meeting room and a crisis room for a separate care facility if required. All new and relocated walls were constructed using timber frame construction, clad with larch wood panels. The floor, doors and windows were also made in larch. Together with a few white walls, this creates a wonderfully harmonious picture – what a feeling of living for the young people and their supervisors. The external appearance should also reflect wood – so larch wood shingles were chosen for the weathered façade and larch wood cladding for the covered entrance area. The existing balconies running all around, no longer desired, were interrupted by increasing the floor plan of 2 rooms. We also succeeded in creating a fall protection system with high architectural standards. A lamella cladding with varying spacing forms the finish to the facade here. Move-in: May 2023 We wish all young people and supervisors lots of fun in their newly renovated home and all the best for the future. Your m3 team