Konservatoriegrunden Musik og kulturskole
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Konservatoriegrunden

A school for music and culture

In the architecture we’ve worked to create a house and a place by letting inside and out flow together. We’ve done this to let the building become a natural part of the cityscape, a place of resonance between old and new. Our proposal holds a distinct, resilient character that creates a significant social space in the city.

Our competition proposal for the news school for music and culture, at Konservatoriegrunden in Frederiksberg a part of Copenhagen, revolves around resonance. Resonance is the physical term for a body in motion that causes a corresponding motion in another body, creating harmony. With our architectural concept we propose a building that will create cultural resonance at Konservatoriegrunden. To achieve this we’ve meticulously placed the building at the site to create architectural resonance.

In the architecture we’ve worked to create a house and a place by letting inside and out flow together. We’ve done this to let the building become a natural part of the cityscape, a place of resonance between old and new. Our proposal holds a distinct, resilient character that creates a significant social space in the city.

A hub in the city

The new Music and Culture School will be placed at a main bike path along a central street through the city. Adjacent to the site towards the east is the protected and well visited DRs Koncertsal. Towards the north is a technical college called NEXT. Thus, it has been logical to place the new music school here: in between music and learning.

There are two sides to the Music and Culture School: One side is more formal and faces the street the other is more social and secluded, facing the courtyard. Towards the street the top of the building is visible above NEXT’s low auditorium building. Towards the courtyard we’ve downscaled the building to meet the hight of the adjacent Conservatory’s cantina.

Experienced sustainability

In the competition proposal we’ve worked with sustainability divided into three main tracks:

  • carbon reduction by strategic life cycle assessments
  • healthy materials and no chemistry
  • flexibility and resilience
  • universal design and inclusion
  • aesthetics and placemaking

The sustainability concept for the proposal is developed to create both tangible and measurable solutions. Tangible effects are essential to our architectural practice, as human experiences of both culture and history is closely connected to sensory registrations of space. In turn, human experiences of sustainability are important to create and understanding of how behavior contributes to a more sustainable lifestyle.

Collaborators
Urban Lab Nordic / Klaus Nielsen Consulting Engineers / Accoustics by Claus Møller Petersen from Sweco
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