area 113 | benedetta tagliabue embt

architect: Benedetta Tagliabue embt (Miralles Tagliabue EMBT)

location: Hamburg, Germany

year: 2010

The new auditorium with the main entrance foyer completes the program of the youth music school, finished in 1999. The extension, which was designed 10 years after the original project,  is located in the narrow space between the old school and the new youth music school and creates a new passage between them. A folded entrance roof covers the foyer and connects with the ramp of the existing music school in the upper floor. The auditorium is elevated to the first floor, giving the opportunity of  an open space in the ground floor which contains the main foyer and a big multipurpose space. The auditorium is visible as an unregular round shape with a gallery level. The façade is covered by bricks, referring in material and shape to the existing buildings build  10 years ago. A visible ornamentation in the bricks refers to sound waves and indicates the content of the building in the exterior.