Voxman Music Building at the University of Iowa

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Voxman Music Building at the University of Iowa, USA

American Building Development design by LMN Architects, USA

Mar 28, 2018

Design: LMN Architects, with Associate Architect: Neumann Monson Architects

Location: Iowa, USA

Voxman Music Building

Voxman Music Building

Photos by Tim Griffith

Voxman Music Building in Iowa

Vision

The Voxman Music Building celebrates musical performance at every turn, embracing a collaborative and exploratory student-driven model of education that treats every space as performance space. The building shares this sense of musical discovery with the community through a transparent expression.

Voxman Music Building

Voxman Music Building

The pattern of streets and open spaces in the mixed-use district of Iowa City extends directly into the building’s multilevel interior spaces, cultivating a sense of vertical urban vitality and acknowledging its place within the community.

Voxman Music Building

Site and Program

The six-story, 186,000 square foot building is situated between campus and the downtown core of Iowa City, embracing both academic and urban experiences. The program comprises a 700-seat concert hall, a 200-seat recital hall, an organ performance hall, a music library, rehearsal rooms, practice rooms, classrooms, and faculty studios and offices linked by a series of vertically connected community spaces.

Voxman Music Building

A multi-story glass corner entry at a major downtown intersection reinforces the merger of campus and city, with the two major performance venues marking their presence on each of the main facades.

Voxman Music Building

Between the performance spaces, porous, day-lit circulation volumes interlink to form the student commons, performance and rehearsal lobby, and three-story atrium. A fourth floor exterior terrace, nestled between the wings of the rear facade, serves as gathering space that frames views to the city’s historic courthouse and countryside beyond.

Voxman Music Building

Voxman Music Building

Design

The concert hall cantilevers over the Burlington Street sidewalk and the Student Commons below, while the recital hall, wrapped in a shingled-glass wall system, reaches out over the South Clinton Street sidewalk.

Voxman Music Building

A composition of subtly textured terra cotta panels and low-iron glass with delicate shading patterns wraps the full exterior. All spaces in the building, including performance halls, rehearsal rooms, offices, and common areas, provide natural light and connections with the outside, while maintaining acoustic isolation.

Voxman Music Building

Requirements of the facility’s high-profile performance spaces are met by highperformance digital design.

Voxman Music Building

The concert hall features a suspended “theatroacoustic” system, unifying acoustics, lighting, and life-safety requirements into a dramatic, multifunctional architectural expression, and the resulting intricately sculpted element is assembled out of 946 unique, folded-aluminum composite modules digitally fabricated from modules digitally designed and fabricated from the architects’ parametric model.

Voxman Music Building

In the recital hall, red-colored acoustical panels optimize the room’s acoustical properties while incorporating a wall-sized shingled-glass window that unites the performance event with the urban experience.

Voxman Music Building

Voxman Music Building

In the three major rehearsal spaces, high ceilings are filled with swarms of brightly colored, kite-like reflectors that vary between solid and perforated to achieve dynamic acoustical and lighting effects.

Voxman Music Building

Voxman Music Building

Voxman Music Building

Voxman Music Building – Building Information

Design Architect: LMN Architects
Associate Architect: Neumann Monson Architects
Construction Management: Mortenson
Acoustic + AV Design: Jaffe Holden
Theater Planning: Fisher Dachs Associates
Lighting Design: Horton Lees Brogden
Structural Engineering: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Engineering: Design Engineers

Energy Analasys: The Weidt Group
Civil Engineering: Shive-Hattery
Landscape: Confluence
Graphics: Pentagram
Vertical Transportation: Lerch Bates
Life Safety/Code: T.A. Kinsman
Cost Estimating: Rider Levett Bucknall

Voxman Music Building

Client: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Project Size: 184,000 SF
Sustainability: LEED Gold

Voxman Music Building

Photography: Tim Griffith

Voxman Music Building at the University of Iowa images / information received 280318 from LMN Architects

Location: Iowa City, USA

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