Embedded in intricate urban context of Maxvorstadt lies the main campus of the Technical University of Munich, which was founded in 1868. Here, in a narrow gap site in front of the cool glass cube of the university canteen, a children’s house is being created, open and light in its design, for the offspring of the institution's students and staff. The project was initiated by the private patron Ingeborg Pohl as a built gift to the university, which will pass into its ownership upon completion. The architectural concept emerged from a remarkable collaboration between two professors at TUM. Francis Kéré, who in 2022 became the first African architect to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, developed the project together with Hermann Kaufmann. The result is a building that combines the experimental, socially driven approach of Kéré Architecture with the constructive and material expertise in timber construction of HK Architekten. The structural composition of the building is based on a consistent timber frame construction, in which only the foundation slab and the separately routed escape staircase are executed in reinforced concrete. A finely crafted skin of Corten steel slats overlays the volume and gives the building a monolithic quality. In this way, within the complex field of the multilayered urban fabric, use, construction and space interlock with precision and condense into a coherent architectural structure that meets its heterogeneous surroundings with calm presence.