Casa da musica / Alejandro Soffia

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Text description provided by the architects.This project is about a large rehearsal room or a small auditorium. It arises as a need to constantly rehearse music, and as a space that can receive different sizes of audiences. That is why it was originally called “Music Room”, but as city normative implied other more complex requirements for this name, it remained as the “Music House”. Finally I put “da” instead of “de” to take advantage of the algorithm when people search for the beautiful “Casa da Música” by Koolhaas in Porto. Now about the scope of acoustics in the project, the music room does avoid parallel planes to prevent sound rebound, both in the plan and in section. Diffraction of sound in these planes are reached in different ways, to achieve a clean and precise sound, with wood textures and curtains that stop their course in the vertical elements, although they were finally discarded due to lack of budget.