Music Space Architecture

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intrinsic space / Creating space

Academy of Architecture Ear-shaped shells adorned the walls of the Academy of Architecture. These shells offered an acoustic view through the walls, so to speak. The boundary marked by the wall was abolished to a certain degree. The sounds of water created an acoustic insight into the world behind.

arcam A group of students created a mechanism that could play the structure of the arcam gallery building. Big, black, round steel pipes served as structure in the glass faรงade to the water. Mechanisms that could play these pipes by hitting, stroking or blowing them translated the physical substance of the building into sound.

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