Sydney rehearsal follies
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Description
Introduction
“Music develops through time, so does architecture ̈ - Le Corbusier
A great amount of boats navigate in the Sydney bay, including sailboats, big cruise ships, military ships and passenger boats that form part of the Sydney public transportation. Over the bay you will find the urban park “the Domain” and the Royal Botanic Gardens which is the biggest Botanic Garden in Australia and one of the most important in the world. Its extent and location, meters away from the bay, make it one of the most popular attractions in the city.
Located inside the Royal Botanic Gardens is the Sydney Music Conservatory which is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia. The conservatory incorporates one department of the Sydney University, the Open Academy Conservatory based on the community and the High School conservatory.
The Sydney Opera House
The Sydney bay consolidates its metropolitan and global character from the work of the Danish architect, Jørn Utzon, the Sydney Opera House. In the 40 ́s Eugene Goossens, the Sydney Music conservatory director, said that the city needed a convenient place for the large theater productions, and in 1954 he obtained the support of the Prime Minister. Goossens insisted that the building should be built on the peninsula of Bennelong Point, a privileged location at the entrance of the Sydney bay.
The Utzon project for the Sydney Opera House was selected as the winner among 233 proposals presented to the international architecture competition in 1955. Eero Saarinen, a jury member, when he saw the almost diagrammatic schemes of the young Danish architect Utzon, he said: “Gentlemen, I believe this is the Opera you were looking for”. Inaugurated in 1973, the Sydney Opera was a modern and expressionist construction with an innovative and powerful design. The building covers an area of 1.8 hectares, is 183 meters long and about 120 meters wide.
Without a doubt the most distinctive element of the building is the cover, conceived from the geometric process of making multiple cuts to a sphere of a radius of 75 meters. The shells scale was selected
to reflect the requirements of the height and acoustics in the interior, with lower spaces in the entrance until reaching the maximum heights on the stage. There are two main vaults that shape the interior vault of the theater and they each belong
to the Concert Hall and the Opera Theater. The other rooms have the smaller groups of vaults. The program is complex and includes, among other things, a great main room which seats 2700 people, the theater of 1500 seats and three additional rooms with seating for 300,400 and 500 people. The Sydney Opera mainly receives theater plays, ballet and opera and it is established as the emblem of the city and is one of the most important architectural icons worldwide.
In 2005 the Australian government declared the Sydney Opera House a National Heritage and Unesco declared it World Heritage encompassing a protected area of 5,8ha and 438,1ha. The Opera is a masterpiece of architecture, engineering and acoustics and has managed to transcend as an iconic symbol of a nation.
What form should a space dedicated to music and performing arts adopt?
Proposa
Sydney is the largest and most populated city in Australia, as well as the cultural and musical capital of the country. It is one of the most multicultural cities in the world; its diversity is reflected in the popular culture and in the expression of music. Nevertheless, the popular culture and the amateur music does not find its way out through the traditional channels being that the Opera agglutinates the most recognized and established works. In the other hand, the experimental works of the music conservatory stay in the edification without a clear diffusion among the citizens.
Sixty years later, in relation to the original competition, ARCHmedium proposes the creation of a new integrated pavilion dedicated to music and the scenic arts under the centennial trees of the Botanic Gardens park. The program establishes a series of independent follies for the rehearsal of students and young bands.
At the same time, we propose a set of small rooms for musical and theatrical shows to introduce the new generations to the population.
ARCHmedium calls for proposals that efficiently integrate into the set, making ties between both historic institutions and that add value to the emblematic whole. How does a building dedicated to music relate to the public spaces?
Program
The competition groups two programs related to music and the scenic arts. Our team elaborated the program based on the needs of diffusion of the music school activities and the will to spread culture around the park.
Sidney Rehearsal Follies is meant to be an open intervention based on culture at one of the central points of the Australian city of Sydney. The program establishes rehearsal rooms inside the park and small scale rooms for shows that can relate the interior with the park. The program should resolve the threshold between the intervention and the park while also giving the city new collective spaces.
Jury
JOSEP LLUIS MATEO
Architect, Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB ). PhD (with honors) at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC ). Professor of Architecture and Design at Swiss Federal institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) since 2002. Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, 2015. Member of l’Ordre des Architectes de Paris, Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) in Zürich and the Catalan Professional Architectural Association (COAC) in Barcelona. Author (selection) of “Bauen und Denken” (2002), “Textos Instrumentales” (2007) and director of a collective research published as “Middle East: Contemporary Architectural Conditions” (2012). His practice, mateoarquitectura, is globally active and tries to connect intelligence and artistic ambition with pragmatism and objectivity. His practice has won many prizes and awards (NAN best Spanish project abroad 2010 & 2011); has been worldwide published (“Josep Lluís Mateo, Opere e progetti). 2007”, “On Building: Matter and Form”, 2012) and exhibit (MoMA New York 2006 and the Galerie d’Architecture in Paris 2013).
Architect, Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB ). PhD (with honors) at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC ). Professor of Architecture and Design at Swiss Federal institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) since 2002. Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, 2015. Member of l’Ordre des Architectes de Paris, Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) in Zürich and the Catalan Professional Architectural Association (COAC) in Barcelona. Author (selection) of “Bauen und Denken” (2002), “Textos Instrumentales” (2007) and director of a collective research published as “Middle East: Contemporary Architectural Conditions” (2012). His practice, mateoarquitectura, is globally active and tries to connect intelligence and artistic ambition with pragmatism and objectivity. His practice has won many prizes and awards (NAN best Spanish project abroad 2010 & 2011); has been worldwide published (“Josep Lluís Mateo, Opere e progetti). 2007”, “On Building: Matter and Form”, 2012) and exhibit (MoMA New York 2006 and the Galerie d’Architecture in Paris 2013).
EMILIANO LOPEZ
Emiliano López Matas was born in Argentina in 1971 and raised in Barcelona. In 2012 he finished his thesis “6107 MSD. Peabody Terrace: Keys of a design process” led by Josep Lluís Sert.
In 1999 he earned his master’s degree in architecture at Harvard University and in 1997 he earned another master’s degree, this time in Art History by the Architecture School of Barcelona.
In 1996 he graduated from UPC ETSA Valles. He has been an associate professor in the School of Architecture of the Universitat Rovira y Virgili in Reus, in the ESARQ, the International University of Catalunya and in Elisava School of Design; he has also been an associate and assistant professor in the UPC in Valles. Between 2004 and 2007 he was an associate professor in the University of Calgary in Canada, as co-director of the Architecture program of Barcelona. Currently he is a guest professor in the Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Emiliano López Matas was born in Argentina in 1971 and raised in Barcelona. In 2012 he finished his thesis “6107 MSD. Peabody Terrace: Keys of a design process” led by Josep Lluís Sert.
In 1999 he earned his master’s degree in architecture at Harvard University and in 1997 he earned another master’s degree, this time in Art History by the Architecture School of Barcelona.
In 1996 he graduated from UPC ETSA Valles. He has been an associate professor in the School of Architecture of the Universitat Rovira y Virgili in Reus, in the ESARQ, the International University of Catalunya and in Elisava School of Design; he has also been an associate and assistant professor in the UPC in Valles. Between 2004 and 2007 he was an associate professor in the University of Calgary in Canada, as co-director of the Architecture program of Barcelona. Currently he is a guest professor in the Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
IÑAKI ALDAY
Iñaki Alday (Zaragoza, 1965) is, together with Margarita Jover, the founder of aldayjover architecture and landscape, in 1996 in Barcelona, an internationally awarded firm that faces works of public architecture and landscape with a common approach to the specific character of the place. aldayjover has designed some of the most important recent public spaces in Barcelona (Green Diagonal-Sagrera), Zaragoza (Water Park), or Pamplona (Aranzadi), as well as architectural pieces and landscapes (The Mill Cultural Center, DHC, or the Recovery of the Gallego river in Zuera). Currently, aldayjover is working in several locations in Spain and in Puerto Rico, in projects that combine heritage and new buildings, natural dynamics of rivers and public space and social dynamics. aldayjover has been awarded with the European Public Space Prize (2002), the FAD Prize (2009), the Urban Integration (2011), the nomination for the Mies van der Rohe EU award (2009), and a number of Spanish and Iberian prizes. In 2011, Iñaki Alday was appointed as the Quesada Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture of the University of Virginia, where he is participating in the on-going evolution of the architecture program at the University of Thomas Jefferson, one of the first public universities of the United States. Since 2016, he is the Director of the Yamuna River Project, the first pan-university grand challenge project at the University of Virginia.
Iñaki Alday (Zaragoza, 1965) is, together with Margarita Jover, the founder of aldayjover architecture and landscape, in 1996 in Barcelona, an internationally awarded firm that faces works of public architecture and landscape with a common approach to the specific character of the place. aldayjover has designed some of the most important recent public spaces in Barcelona (Green Diagonal-Sagrera), Zaragoza (Water Park), or Pamplona (Aranzadi), as well as architectural pieces and landscapes (The Mill Cultural Center, DHC, or the Recovery of the Gallego river in Zuera). Currently, aldayjover is working in several locations in Spain and in Puerto Rico, in projects that combine heritage and new buildings, natural dynamics of rivers and public space and social dynamics. aldayjover has been awarded with the European Public Space Prize (2002), the FAD Prize (2009), the Urban Integration (2011), the nomination for the Mies van der Rohe EU award (2009), and a number of Spanish and Iberian prizes. In 2011, Iñaki Alday was appointed as the Quesada Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture of the University of Virginia, where he is participating in the on-going evolution of the architecture program at the University of Thomas Jefferson, one of the first public universities of the United States. Since 2016, he is the Director of the Yamuna River Project, the first pan-university grand challenge project at the University of Virginia.
DAVID BRAVO
(Barcelona, 1975) Architect. Since 2003, he collaborates with the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) in the development of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, where he is responsible for contents and secretary of the Jury. He has directed for the Spanish public television (RTVE) the “Europe City” documentary (2012), on the validity of the European model of city and he has been curator of “Piso Piloto” (2015), an exhibition on the right to housing and the right to the city presented simultaneously at the CCCB and the Museum of Antioquia in Medellin (Colombia). He has also collaborated in the publication of the book Europe City: Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space (Lars Müller Publishers, 2015). He has taught in the Master of City and Urban Planning at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), the graduate of Art and Public Space of ELISAVA School of Design and the Master of Architecture and Urban Culture Metropolis. He talks about cities and public space in articles and lectures and he is a regular contributor to the Revista Diagonal architecture magazine.
(Barcelona, 1975) Architect. Since 2003, he collaborates with the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) in the development of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, where he is responsible for contents and secretary of the Jury. He has directed for the Spanish public television (RTVE) the “Europe City” documentary (2012), on the validity of the European model of city and he has been curator of “Piso Piloto” (2015), an exhibition on the right to housing and the right to the city presented simultaneously at the CCCB and the Museum of Antioquia in Medellin (Colombia). He has also collaborated in the publication of the book Europe City: Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space (Lars Müller Publishers, 2015). He has taught in the Master of City and Urban Planning at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), the graduate of Art and Public Space of ELISAVA School of Design and the Master of Architecture and Urban Culture Metropolis. He talks about cities and public space in articles and lectures and he is a regular contributor to the Revista Diagonal architecture magazine.
CARLOS GONZALVO
Carlos Gonzalvo (Zaragoza, 1991) he is an Architect, graduated from ETSA in Reus (Rovira i Virgili) in 2016 with the final course project “Strategies for the industrial Idleness of the territory”: Proton Therapy Center in the Nuclear Power Plant In Vandellos-I . He has been a member of the investigation groups “Applied Geometry – Universitat Rovira I Virgili” and “CAIT: Integral Analysis of the territory center” , where he has been able to participate in several conferences and exhibitions organized by the University of Girona, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Universidade Lusíada of Lisboa.
He has also collaborated with different architecture studios in France, India and Barcelona. Currently he works in Aixopluc studio. He is also the co-founder of Beta Architecture, together with Andreu Arévalo, (www.beta-architecture.com), a blog about unbuilt architecture.
Carlos Gonzalvo (Zaragoza, 1991) he is an Architect, graduated from ETSA in Reus (Rovira i Virgili) in 2016 with the final course project “Strategies for the industrial Idleness of the territory”: Proton Therapy Center in the Nuclear Power Plant In Vandellos-I . He has been a member of the investigation groups “Applied Geometry – Universitat Rovira I Virgili” and “CAIT: Integral Analysis of the territory center” , where he has been able to participate in several conferences and exhibitions organized by the University of Girona, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Universidade Lusíada of Lisboa.
He has also collaborated with different architecture studios in France, India and Barcelona. Currently he works in Aixopluc studio. He is also the co-founder of Beta Architecture, together with Andreu Arévalo, (www.beta-architecture.com), a blog about unbuilt architecture.
Rewards
First prize
$2 945 + StudentConsidered for publication in an architecture magazine, one-year subscription to an architecture magazine, exhibition at ETSAB Barcelona, Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs, 1 year subscription to ARCHcase Premium.
Second prize
$1 178 + StudentConsidered for publication in an architecture magazine, one-year subscription to an architecture magazine, exhibition at ETSAB Barcelona, Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs, 1 year subscription to ARCHcase Premium.
Third prize
$589 + StudentConsidered for publication in an architecture magazine, one-year subscription to an architecture magazine, exhibition at ETSAB Barcelona, Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs, 1 year subscription to ARCHcase Premium.
10 Honorable mentions
StudentConsidered for publication in an architecture magazine, exhibition at ETSAB Barcelona, Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs, 1 year subscription to ARCHcase Premium.
First prize
$2 356 + Young ArchitectsConsidered for publication in an architecture magazine, one-year subscription to an architecture magazine, exhibition at ETSAB Barcelona, Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs, 1 year subscription to ARCHcase Premium.
3 Honorable mentions
Young ArchitectsConsidered for publication in an architecture magazine, exhibition at ETSAB Barcelona, Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs, 1 year subscription to ARCHcase Premium.
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