Music academy annex
Music academy annex
Funnel-shaped window openings
Funnel-shaped window openings
Extension with music and dance rooms
Extension with music and dance rooms
Projectteam Gerhard Kalhöfer, Stephan Laumanns, Tobias Roth, Ulli Wallner, Marc Rogmans
Client Musikakademie Bad Fredeburg
City Bad Fredeburg
Date 2010

sound_funnel - Extension Music Academy Bad Fredeburg

Building and context. How do you make a building disappear whose dimensions contradict the small-scale surroundings? The oversized volume is broken up, parts are hidden under an ascending orchard meadow and thus put into perspective. The large halls are freed and turned into musical sculptures in a landscape that visitors can walk into, with many views of the music and dance rooms. The expansion aims to mediate between the incisive inventory and the surroundings. It builds references in proportion, height and orientation to the respective sides of the environment and can still be read geometrically and formally independently.