Nichtoffener Wettbewerb | 06/2014
Arvo Pärt Centre / Arvo Pärdi Keskuse
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Spiegel
Sonderpreis
Preisgeld: 2.000 EUR
Architektur
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Project
Arvo Pärt Sound Cloud, Laulasmaa, Estonia, 2014
The Sound Cloud takes reference from Arvo Pärt’s music as well as the dense pine forest. Its shape is derived from the song “Spiegel im Spiegel”, consolidating the main sequence spectrogram of the song into the curves of a roof. This cloud of sound forms an introverted space within where the music is played and listened to and a space underneath that becomes the work and meeting place for the people interested in the legacy of the composer. The cloud only touches the ground where it is thickened to house the performance space, and otherwise hovers between the trees, like the tree house of the observation platform, suspended in the natural environment of the forest.
The complex rooms of the program are organized in their functional groups and combined into a box building that is placed underneath the roof. Underneath the roof and in the center of the overall courtyard shape a poetic space is created within nature, where the memory of Arvo Pärt can reside.
Team
Client: International Arvo Pärt Centre Foundation
Planning: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH
Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix
Design Partner: Karolin Schmidbaur
Design Architects: Sille Pihlak, Jan Markus Ludwig
Project Team: Benjamin Schmidt, Ernesto Mulch, Daniel Bolojan,
Paul Hoszowski, Win Man, Ingrid Beyeler, Maryia Sakharevich, Jan Rancke, Markus Pillhofer
Acoustical and Theatre Design:
Audiovisual and Theatrical Equipment Systems
Tateo Nakajima, Principal, Arup, New York
Lighting Design: Matt Franks, Associate, Arup, New York
3D Visualization: Luxigon, Los Angeles
PROJECT DATA
Competition: 2014
Site Area: 53,775 m²
Gross Floor Area: 2,400 m²
Net Floor Area: 1,845 m²
Building Height: 5 meters
Volume: 11,587 m³
Number of Floors: 1
Area Occupied: 2,230 m²
Fill- up Rate: 4,15 %
Parking Spaces at the Building: 17 (+ 30 already planned)
Green Area Ratio: 95%
Arvo Pärt Sound Cloud, Laulasmaa, Estonia, 2014
The Sound Cloud takes reference from Arvo Pärt’s music as well as the dense pine forest. Its shape is derived from the song “Spiegel im Spiegel”, consolidating the main sequence spectrogram of the song into the curves of a roof. This cloud of sound forms an introverted space within where the music is played and listened to and a space underneath that becomes the work and meeting place for the people interested in the legacy of the composer. The cloud only touches the ground where it is thickened to house the performance space, and otherwise hovers between the trees, like the tree house of the observation platform, suspended in the natural environment of the forest.
The complex rooms of the program are organized in their functional groups and combined into a box building that is placed underneath the roof. Underneath the roof and in the center of the overall courtyard shape a poetic space is created within nature, where the memory of Arvo Pärt can reside.
Team
Client: International Arvo Pärt Centre Foundation
Planning: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH
Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix
Design Partner: Karolin Schmidbaur
Design Architects: Sille Pihlak, Jan Markus Ludwig
Project Team: Benjamin Schmidt, Ernesto Mulch, Daniel Bolojan,
Paul Hoszowski, Win Man, Ingrid Beyeler, Maryia Sakharevich, Jan Rancke, Markus Pillhofer
Acoustical and Theatre Design:
Audiovisual and Theatrical Equipment Systems
Tateo Nakajima, Principal, Arup, New York
Lighting Design: Matt Franks, Associate, Arup, New York
3D Visualization: Luxigon, Los Angeles
PROJECT DATA
Competition: 2014
Site Area: 53,775 m²
Gross Floor Area: 2,400 m²
Net Floor Area: 1,845 m²
Building Height: 5 meters
Volume: 11,587 m³
Number of Floors: 1
Area Occupied: 2,230 m²
Fill- up Rate: 4,15 %
Parking Spaces at the Building: 17 (+ 30 already planned)
Green Area Ratio: 95%
Beurteilung durch das Preisgericht
Spiegel attracted the jury as the most confident architectural statement of the competition. Spectacular and beautifully organic in its form, which almost floats above the ground, as well the unique auditorium inside, would make the Arvo Pärt Centre a well-known tourist attraction and have significant value as a unique and desirable concert hall. The attractive 3D-images might have misleading proportions, as the space inside the auditorium is given a much larger impression than the 140m² it is set out to be. You could even say Spiegel is the most musical design in the contest, but at the same time the jury acknowledges the possibility for the architecture „playing over“ the music of the composer the building it is dedicated to. The Spiegel and Arvo Pärt have different characteristics; they play in different tonality. On one hand, the Spiegel architecture is very self-contained and dominant, and Arvo Pärt’s music, on the other hand, is powerful in a gentle and unintrusive way.
The jury feels that the focus of the designer has been primarily centred around the auditorium and the public zones and might have compromised other functions of the building – such as the rigid grid-like working spaces, offering limited flexibility.
The extreme tower solution is bold and playful, yet the suitability and practicality of the stair-systems could be questioned, especially with the long Estonian winters...
The jury feels that the focus of the designer has been primarily centred around the auditorium and the public zones and might have compromised other functions of the building – such as the rigid grid-like working spaces, offering limited flexibility.
The extreme tower solution is bold and playful, yet the suitability and practicality of the stair-systems could be questioned, especially with the long Estonian winters...
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