Danish designer Adept Architects has received a world competitors to show a former division retailer right into a live performance corridor within the German metropolis of Braunschweig.
The 18,000-sq-m challenge will put a light-weight, 1,200-seat corridor on high of the repurposed department of German division chain Karstadt, and add a public music college.
The constructing’s new façade is impressed by the previous Karstadt design.
Inexperienced options, equivalent to low-emission district heating, rooftop photovoltaics, passive cooling methods and using cross-laminated timber will probably be carried out.
The Haus der Musik’s competitors jury stated: “With equal measures of warning and braveness, the successful proposal transforms the present constructing by way of adaptive reuse into an essential part for Braunschweig’s metropolis centre, in addition to for town’s musical panorama.
“The tough balancing act between preservation, transformation and innovation has been convincingly achieved. Even when the interpretation and conceptual reuse could appear stunning at first look, the contextual integration is understandable, delicate and convincing.”
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