Concert Hall in Warsaw Scola di Musica by Tomasz Konior

Concert Hall in Warsaw Scola di Musica by Tomasz Konior is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award di Platinu in Disignu d'Architettura Competition Category.

PlatinuArchitettura· 2021

Concert Hall in Warsaw Scola di Musica

by Tomasz Konior

Client: Konior Studio

A' Design Award di Platinu Winner in Architettura Category

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The Design

About Concert Hall in Warsaw Scola di Musica

A Sala di Cuncertu in Varsavia hè una scola di musica custruita intornu à una sala di cuncertu rotonda. U prugettu adatta i custruzzioni esistenti in decadenza è li allarga, dendu à u cumplessu una nova funzione è una usabilità più grande. A sala di cuncertu hà una pianta circulare di 24 metri di diametru è accoglie 70 musicanti è 300 ascultadori. L'ultima fila hè à solu 8 metri da a scena, ciò chì mantene u spaziu intimu. Vele di legnu di frassinu è un sulaghju di legnu fresatu formanu u sonu. U betone, l'acciaghju è u legnu sò i materiali principali. Una nova piazza publica davanti à a scola cunnetta u situ cù a cità.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Platinu

Concert Hall in Warsaw Scola di Musica hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Platinu, una ricunniscenza estremamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni veramente eccezziunali, eleganti è magnifichi. I vincitori di Platinu sò maraviglie di a creazione, testimunianze di i limiti di a creatività intellettuale, è dimustranu a prufessiunalità incomparabile è u geniu di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì sti disegni sianu l'opere più rinumate chì definiscenu l'estetica d'una epoca, cuntribuiscenu à u benessere di a sucetà è allarganu i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Concert Hall in Warsaw Scola di Musica mostra un livellu trascendente d'eccellenza è face di u mondu, senza dubbitu, un locu megliu cù e so caratteristiche vantaghjose è preziose. Concert Hall in Warsaw Scola di Musica hè una opera vincitrice di u premiu A' Design Award di Platinu chì risveglia disideri, ispira, rallegra è face nasce una grande gioia.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: At a time when building new architecture has never been easier than today, special attention should be paid to the desire to use the existing urban fabric. With the principles of sustainable development, the new music school in Warsaw has adapted the decaying buildings by giving them a new function. By extending them, it increased the quality and functionality of the entire complex. Thanks to the unique concert hall, the new object will become an important place on the cultural map of Warsaw.
Dimensions & Packaging: Usable floor area: 10 138 m2
Total area: 12 942 m2
Area of the plot: 8 454 m2
Building area: 3 341 m2
Tags: Architecture, education, school, music, city, heritage, concert hall, wood, concrete, design, interior, round, circular, innovation, Poland, koniorstudio
Production Technology: The main materials in the design are concrete, steel and wood. A unique solution is the round plan of the concert hall with a diameter of 24 m. The internal reinforced concrete walls are made of rubber formwork in a specially designed and tested shape. The ash sails and the ceiling are the most important acoustically surfaces obtained from individually milled and joined wooden blocks. The whole structure is suspended by steel brackets mounted to reinforced concrete walls.
Design Challenge: The acoustic qualities developed with Nagata Acoustics, as well as the form and proportions of the interior makes it comparable to the best concert halls in the world. Wooden, ash sails and a ceiling hanging over the stage and the audience gave it a characteristic and memorable architectural
Research: The heart of the complex in this building is the concert hall. Its unusual circular plan comes from the desire to integrate around the music. The area divided in half between audience and the stage, allowed to create a comfortable place for 70 musicians and 300 music lovers. The last row is only 8 meters from the stage, which gives the impression of an intimate space to a young artist. The amphitheater arch of the audience surrounds the performers, giving a sense of community.
Inspiration: The architectural competition for the music school did not include the historic building of the former orphanage. It fills almost the entire front elevation from Rakowiecka Street, hence the decision was to locate the new building with a concert hall deep within the plot. The existing context inspired us to create a background architecture with the continuation of the, scale and rhythms of the existing building, while inside a world full of acoustic details subordinated to music and silence
Project Duration: The project started in 2015, construction started in 2017 and finished in October 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.
Operation Flow: The primary design decision was to define the entrance zone. The fence was reduced in order to establish a stronger relationship with the city by creating a new public space in front of the school. In the place of the former bunker, a safe square was designed. By penetrating the foundation walls, a spacious entrance to the atrium under the body of the historic building was formed. The internal, multifunctional foyer, lit by a daylight, is the keystone of the old and the new.
Patents: Konior Studio
Team Members: Tomasz Konior, Dominik Koroś, Aleksander Nowacki, Michał Lipiec, Marcin Piotrowski, Wojciech Przywecki, Angelika Drozd, Anita Łukaszyk-Nagi, Justyna Boduch, Adam Przybyła, Magdalena Jagoda, Anna Kłosek, Arkadiusz Laskowski, Agata Żak
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Bartek Barczyk, Concert Hall in Warsaw, 2020
Image #2: Photographer Bartek Barczyk, Concert Hall in Warsaw, 2020
Image #3: Photographer Bartek Barczyk, Concert Hall in Warsaw, 2020
Image #4: Photographer Piotr Krajewski, Concert Hall in Warsaw, 2020
Image #5: Photographer Piotr Krajewski, Concert Hall in Warsaw, 2020