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Project: Domsing School, Stuttgart/Germany
The architects have responded to the complex design demands of a choral school with an equally complex and well-considered concept. In terms of how it relates to its urban context, the new building has been successfully integrated into its heterogeneous environment with a sensitive understanding of scale and a use of materials that reflects and reinterprets local building practice. The folded configuration adopted for the outer skin of the building is consistently mirrored in the treatment of the interior. The brick used for the outer skin is replaced by bamboo on the inside - a timber that responds well to indoor temperature and humidity. In order to reduce sound reverberation times in the practice rooms to the required minimum, a complex system of acoustic panels with varying sound-absorbing and sound-reflecting characteristics was installed. The lighting design of the building takes both rehearsal needs and concert situations into account.
The jury's verdict:
"The strength of this project lies not least, perhaps, in its eschewal of the fashionable in favour of the classically modern."
Website: www.nowherearchitekten.de
