Yundola

Children’s day center, Yundola, Rhodopes, Velingrad, Bulgaria

The concept of the facility is to shelter on a hotel basis school children and teachers from different schools of Bulgaria, and neighbouring countries. The centre is placed in a beautiful mountainous and forested valley, on a slope looking South-West. Its program consists of 10 residence units, installed into 5 houses, 2 floors each, clustered together in a form of a micro village settlement, or “makhala”. The building typology is oscillating between “a building with 10 apartments” and “five houses with two residence units each, “glued” into a cluster”. The residences are complemented by a servicing area with wardrobes for ski, medical care centre, and technical rooms placed under the parking place for up to 10 cars, a restaurant with a kitchen and storage room, administration and reception areas. Additionally, a two-floor open “kiosk” surrounded by tall pine trees of the natural forest is format the space environment of the complex. The centre is conceived to play the role of a habitation for schoolchildren that are invited to recreate and learn the wild nature environment in a way that boy/girl scouts are used to do.

The total floor area hardly exceeds 1500 sq.m. placed on a 1800 sq.m. terrain.

Year: 2016
Area: 1500 m2
Type: Mixed hospitality development
Client: Maya Bezhashka
Status: Project