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KNA Music Hall

A music hall shaped by sound

Bachelor graduation project | 2017 | in collaboration with Job van den Heuvel

Architecture as frozen music

A music hall formed by music itself. The emphasis in research relied on a cross reference where the arts of architecture and music meet each other. The gray area in which these two disciplines meet, could be extracted within the concepts of rhythm, movement and tectonic. In both disciplines, these concepts together create harmony; harmony in time in music and harmony in space in architecture. Therefore, to blend the concepts where the two disciplines meet, experiments with both material and sound have resulted in a consensus between sound and space. Instead of only looking at the context, it’s also important to listen to the context in a building which is formed for and by the sound of music.





Tectonics in music & space

The creation of the sound of music relies on the coming together of two materials. The stick that hits the drum, the bow which vibrates the violin strings, and air that moves along the copper of a trumpet. The visible honesty of acoustic instruments allows us to detect the way sound is created. Its tectonics allows us to extract the . Space is created with the coming together of two materials as well; the construction and the shell. In the same way music provides us honesty in its tectonics, the building also allows us to witness the convergence of the construction and shell. The different construction strokes and its shell, are consequently arranged in a steady rhythm, in which the movement between the different strokes, create the harmony inside the building.




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