JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Amsterdam

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Holland, Building Project, Pictures, Design, Images

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Amsterdam : Westergasfabriek

Johann Sebastian Bach Music Pavilion, Holland design by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)

11 Mar 2010

Bach-pavilion goes to Amsterdam for Holland Festival

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – previously in Manchester, to relocate in June to the Westergasfabriek

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – 3D Model:
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Amsterdam
images Courtesy of Tony Hogg Design and Base Structures

Lecture by Zaha Hadid due in Muziekgebouw on 6 Jun

JS BACH / ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS CHAMBER MUSIC HALL AT MANCHESTER ART GALLERY FOR MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Zaha Hadid Architects’ chamber music hall specially designed to house solo performances of the exquisite music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

A voluminous ribbon swirls within the room, carving out a spatial and visual response to the intricate relationships of Bach’s harmonies. As the ribbon careens above the performer, cascades into the ground and wraps around the audience, the original room as a box is sculpted into fluid spaces swelling, merging, and slipping through one another.

Johann Sebastian Bach Music Pavilion design by Zaha Hadid Architects JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Amsterdam design by Zaha Hadid Architects
images Courtesy of Tony Hogg Design and Base Structures

“The design enhances the multiplicity of Bach’s work through a coherent integration of formal and structural logic. A single continuous ribbon of fabric swirls around itself, creating layered spaces to cocoon the performers and audience with in an intimate fluid space.” said Hadid.

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – 3D Model:
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Amsterdam Johann Sebastian Bach Music Pavilion Holland JS Bach Chamber Music Hall Netherlands Building
images Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects

The process of realizing the design involved architectural considerations of scale, structure and acoustics to develop a dynamic formal dialogue inseparable from its intended purpose as an intimate chamber music hall. A layering of spaces and functions is achieved through the ribbon wrapping around itself, alternately compressing to the size of a handrail then stretching to enclose the full height of the room. Circulatory and visual connections are continually discovered as one passes through the multiple layers of space delineated by the ribbon.

The ribbon itself consists of a translucent fabric membrane articulated by an internal steel structure suspended from the ceiling. The surface of the fabric shell undulates in a constant but changing rhythm as it is stretched over the internal structure.

It varies between the highly tensioned skin on the exterior of the ribbon and the soft billowing effect of the same fabric on the interior of the ribbon. Clear acrylic acoustic panels are suspended above the stage to reflect and disperse the sound, while remaining visually imperceptible within the fabric membrane. Programmed lighting and a series of dispersed musical recordings activate the spaces between the ribbon outside of performance times. The installation is designed to be transportable and re-installed in other similar venues.

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall in Manchester:
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall
photograph : Luke Hayes

Pivotal to its function is the performance of the ribbon. It has been designed to simultaneously enhance the acoustic experience of the concert while spatially defining a stage, an intimate enclosure, and passageways. It exists at a scale in which it is perceived as both an object floating in a room as well as a temporal architecture that invites one to enter, inhabit and explore.

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall – Building Information

PROGRAMME: Chamber Music Hall
ARCHITECTS: Zaha Hadid Architects
DESIGN TEAM (Zaha Hadid Architects): Melodie Leung, Gerhild Orthacker
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT: Sandy Brown Associates
FABRICATOR: Base Structures
TENSILE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Tony Hogg Design Ltd

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall images / information from Zaha Hadid Architects

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Location: Pazzanistraat, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe

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