SoundSCALE envisions a multicultural Music Centre that offers a spectrum of musical venues in terms of audio and spatial qualities, while challenging the generic dynamic between procession and performance and creating a non-hierarchical relationship between the two. It sets out…
SoundSCALE envisions a multicultural Music Centre that offers a spectrum of musical venues in terms of audio and spatial qualities, while challenging the generic dynamic between procession and performance and creating a non-hierarchical relationship between the two. It sets out to disrupt the prescribed rigorous routine that occurs in modern concert halls. It replaces the standard commerce-oriented front of house with a space where the procession is about the physical experience. One will no longer be directly fed to the auditorium, but will have a path to travel in search of entertainment. This procession would carry the visitors through a sequence of different scale spaces that would determine a rhythmic architectural route.
Inspired by the variety of amusements and freedom of circulation offered by a medieval fair, I am looking to translate the different scales of entertainment to corresponding scales of listening experiences in a modern context. The music center would host 3 performance spaces with 3 different conditions placed within a loop. When not active, the stages revert to being transititory spaces that act as circulation. Depending on the scenario, performance or number of visitors interested in an act, the spaces expand accordingly.
The performative quality of spaces is provided by the auxetic behaviour of the hybrid system. The system acts as a base assembly logic for the expandable stages and as form form-finding device for the rigid parts of the building.
