JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Holland, Zaha Hadid Dutch Building Project Pictures, ZHA Design Images
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Amsterdam : Westergasfabriek
Johann Sebastian Bach Music Pavilion, Holland design by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – previously in Manchester, to relocate in June to the Westergasfabriek
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – 3D Model:
images Courtesy of Tony Hogg Design and Base Structures
Lecture by Zaha Hadid due in Muziekgebouw on 6 Jun
11 Mar 2010
Bach-pavilion goes to Amsterdam for Holland Festival
JS BACH / ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS CHAMBER MUSIC HALL AT MANCHESTER ART GALLERY FOR MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Zaha Hadid Architects’ chamber music hall specially designed to house solo performances of the exquisite music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
A voluminous ribbon swirls within the room, carving out a spatial and visual response to the intricate relationships of Bach’s harmonies. As the ribbon careens above the performer, cascades into the ground and wraps around the audience, the original room as a box is sculpted into fluid spaces swelling, merging, and slipping through one another.
images Courtesy of Tony Hogg Design and Base Structures
“The design enhances the multiplicity of Bach’s work through a coherent integration of formal and structural logic. A single continuous ribbon of fabric swirls around itself, creating layered spaces to cocoon the performers and audience with in an intimate fluid space.” said Hadid.
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – 3D Model:
images Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
The process of realizing the design involved architectural considerations of scale, structure and acoustics to develop a dynamic formal dialogue inseparable from its intended purpose as an intimate chamber music hall. A layering of spaces and functions is achieved through the ribbon wrapping around itself, alternately compressing to the size of a handrail then stretching to enclose the full height of the room. Circulatory and visual connections are continually discovered as one passes through the multiple layers of space delineated by the ribbon.
The ribbon itself consists of a translucent fabric membrane articulated by an internal steel structure suspended from the ceiling. The surface of the fabric shell undulates in a constant but changing rhythm as it is stretched over the internal structure.
It varies between the highly tensioned skin on the exterior of the ribbon and the soft billowing effect of the same fabric on the interior of the ribbon. Clear acrylic acoustic panels are suspended above the stage to reflect and disperse the sound, while remaining visually imperceptible within the fabric membrane. Programmed lighting and a series of dispersed musical recordings activate the spaces between the ribbon outside of performance times. The installation is designed to be transportable and re-installed in other similar venues.
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall in Manchester:
photograph : Luke Hayes
Pivotal to its function is the performance of the ribbon. It has been designed to simultaneously enhance the acoustic experience of the concert while spatially defining a stage, an intimate enclosure, and passageways. It exists at a scale in which it is perceived as both an object floating in a room as well as a temporal architecture that invites one to enter, inhabit and explore.
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – Building Information
PROGRAMME: Chamber Music Hall
ARCHITECTS: Zaha Hadid Architects
DESIGN TEAM (Zaha Hadid Architects): Melodie Leung, Gerhild Orthacker
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT: Sandy Brown Associates
FABRICATOR: Base Structures
TENSILE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Tony Hogg Design Ltd
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall images / information from Zaha Hadid Architects
Location: Pazzanistraat, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe
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