Located in an area where
most children of the region have studied in improvised places - old schools
that haven’t been built in accordance with the technical needs of the discipline.
Looking to close the gap of
poorly planned educational facilities, the newly formed institution
includes the spaces for extra-curricular activities like music, theatre, dance,
drawing, painting, graphics, sculpture, new media and performance arts.
The site that the town-hall
chose for this school is between a primary school, a small park and a small
wooden church, in a district full of monotonous block of flats built entirely
during the communist era.
The Academy of Music
and Arts was conceived as a space to able to study various artistic
disciplines: music, theater, dance, drawing, sculpture, new media, and other
art forms.
The shape is formed by two
white L-shaped volumes that surrounds the red volume of the two
performance halls – between a window display of the building towards the
street.
Celebration Hall has 192 seats and trim and compliance geometry of space contributes to a sound that allows the development of several types of performances: classical, pop, rock, theater, choreography.
The red volume is floating
independently over the forum space and hosts the two performance halls, a small
one for chamber music and a 200-seat hall for bigger concerts or events, with
the entrance through a small bridge.
The most distinctive space
is the forum from the underground, the central space of the school. It’s a
flexible space. Its skin is transparent towards interior and exterior.
The light comes from
everywhere, also through a skylight that articulate the white and red volumes.
It can be enlarged with the
foyer and the drawing and painting space from the ground floor, but also
towards the exterior through two performance terraces which link the forum with
the street. It can be a space for public meetings, various exhibitions,
conferences, courses etc.
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Architects:
LTFB Studio
Project
Manager: VCE Vienna Consulting
Engineers
Structure:
Ductil Tech
Acoustic:
Radu Pana, Marius
Smighelschi
Constructor:
Cam Construct Engineering
Year:
2012
Photographs: Cosmin Dragomir
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