Architectural office Barozzi/Veiga designed the philharmonic hall in Szczecin, Poland, composed by a concert hall and a chamber music hall.
The Philharmonic Hall emerges from its urban context, influenced by the steeply pitched roofs and the verticality of the city’s residential buildings, by the monumentality of the upright ornaments of its neo-gothic churches and the heavy volumes of its classicist buildings.
The project was made using geometry to give shape to a new rhythmic composition that conveys feelings by balancing massiveness and verticality.
The use of glass as the exterior cladding material highlights how the building contrasts with the conditions of its surrounding environment. It creates a bright, transparent and upstanding object.
The building’s interiors are simple, large skylights being their utmost defining trait. The great symphonic hall differs from these in that it is a sculpted object, embedded into a barely outlined mineral-like space.
The project won the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015.
Images courtesy of Simon Menges, Hufton + Crow
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