Offener Wettbewerb | 02/2018
Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre / M. K. Čiurlionio koncertų centro ir gretimos teritorijos (apribotos Nemuno upės kairiojo kranto ir H. ir O. Minkovskių g.)
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A bird's eye view of the Concert Centre
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A light and pure pentagon sitting on the edge of Nemunas River, envelopes two concert halls, one addressing the old town and the other the new and each marked by a raised corner on the pentagon to register their location and orientation. The space in between will be a series of vaulted foyers that will flow between the two halls and will lead the audience. The vaulted foyer spaces create an episodic experience starting at the entry and going all the way to the halls reviving the great tradition of classical concert halls in Europe elevating the concert center from a venue for music to a place for social drama and presence.
The expression of the project on the exterior is meant to be emblematic to immediately be recognized as an icon for the city however positioned carefully to create a range of public spaces around itself ranging from public spaces to dedicated platforms serving the concert center; from the main civic plaza on the front to two outdoor viewing platforms toward the old town and a series of landscape terraces on the north that merge and blend with the river.
The River Sonata
M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre
The main hall uses curvilinear geometry to allow the seating tiers to embrace the stage and create an immersive experience between the audience and the music. The multi tiered seating arrangements would cascade the audience across the hall and create a peripheral consciousness for each audience of the shared experience while focusing on the stage. The subtle vertical fluting of the interior walls will create a sense of upstanding elegance as well as controlling the reverberation time of the hall. The secondary hall will accommodate a range of configurations through telescopic seatings.
At the end the project becomes an enigmatic addition to the city, a romantic metaphor for a town and its river with the ambition to bridge; to bridge the gap between the two sides, to vault between the auditoriums, to connect the vision and the sound, art and music, the very ambition that M.K. Čiurlionis embarked on and will always be remembered for it.
From Left to Right: Sonata V, Sonata of the Sea, by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Paris Opera House (Palais Garnier) | Paris Opera House (Palais Garnier) | A cutaway scale model of Paris Opera House (Palais Garnier) | Section Perspective of Villa Farnese by Vignola | Plan of Villa Farnese by Vignola Example of how a primitive form can be divided to a series of distinct rooms with figural clarity.
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Site Plan of the proposal
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North and south Elevations
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To and bottom left | The compound vaulted figure of the foyer spaces in relation to the building and the auditoriums | Introduction of natural light into the foyer space
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A high efficiency envelope system incorporating all the services of the building and creating an active poche along the perimeter of the building. The building’s envelope consists of three climate controlling layers, namely; A Low-E semi-translucent façade, a highly insulated and high mass exterior walls (’double skin’), six meter wide programmatic ‘buffer’ which positions low use spaces (services, washrooms, exits/egress, storage etc.) around the perimeter to further insulate the primary spaces.
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The semi-translucent façade and the public space
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A water remediation landscape strategy that creates a vibrant park produces zero run-off as well as lowers the level of pollution of Nemunas river through extensive use of bioswales and filtration ponds.
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Longitudinl Section
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The Entry Foyer; A series of vaulted foyers will flow between the two concert halls and lead the audience. The vaulted foyer spaces create an episodic experience starting at the entry and going all the way to the halls reviving the great tradition of classical concert halls in Europe elevating the concert center from a venue for music to a place for social drama and presence.
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Physical Model Shots
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The main hall uses curvilinear geometry to allow the seating tiers to embrace the stage and create an immersive experience between the audience and the music.
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Sections of the concert halls; The multi tiered seating arrangements would cascade the audience across the hall and create a peripheral consciousness for each audience of the shared experience while focusing on the stage.
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Plans of the,
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The subtle vertical fluting of the interior walls will create a sense of upstanding elegance as well as controlling the reverberation time of the hall. The secondary hall will accommodate a range of configurations through telescopic seatings. The storage space for the seating equipment has been designed within the poche space of the auditorium to create ease of reconfiguration as well as to act as acoustic buffer zones.