Immersed in a valley in northern Switzerland, a small plot traced by the memories of ancient crops hosts the kindergarten of Heerbrugg. The existing building becomes the starting point for project; showing off its potential.

The kindergarten is extended in one level, in order to emphasise the relationship with the playground. This relationship is filtered in three stages.

At first, the park and playground will be framed by the windows; bringing the garden inside the classroom.

Secondly, a common intermediate space in between the classrooms and the playground will function as a buffer. On rainy days a covered recreational space will be available here.

Finally, the courtyards will host small scale trees and objects, mediating between the building and the park, where the children can experience a small portion of the playground.

The project is a new rhythm awaiting completion of the new portions of the landscape while simultaneously forming mental landscapes in the minds of the children living there. This operation of extension of the ‘door’; this transformation of the threshold into an actual space become the imagination of a possible world, different and strange, suspended between inside and out. It represents hesitation, desire, potential and wonder.