The Haus der Musik combines performance venues with the teaching, research and work activities of numerous institutions committed to music. This means that it is filled with life all year round. At a central urban interface, a public place is thus created that opens up new access to the neighboring historical cultural buildings beyond its program.
The interplay of the multi-layered façade, which suggests the multi-layered and synergetic use within the institutions, and the lapidary – but all the more powerful in terms of spatial sculpture – expresses the diversity and accessibility of the building in a natural and self-explanatory way. In a subtle way, the inner world created in this way is depicted on the building envelope and at the same time brings the city and the people into it.
Ceramic façade Ceramics consists of clay minerals that are fired at high temperatures: fire – water – earth. At HdMv, the façade cladding is made of extruded ceramic profiles with a maximum length of 150 cm and a single-fired glaze. The free arrangement and shine of the various opaque profiles reflects the sunlight as a complex line pattern in iridescent colours ranging from light brown to black.
The formal design of the sculptural profiles is based on the rhythmic superimposition of two length intervals. While 4 profiles are arranged per metre in all opaque areas, the metre is divided by 3 slats in the transparent areas. The internal structure of the 3 different opaque profiles is also subject to this division pattern. In music, this connection would be called a quarter triplet.
As a place of artistic work and exchange, it provides spaces that are the occasion for constant and also surprising encounters. The stage is where dialogue takes place, unintentionally and informally, as well as staged and performed.
Text: Ernst Beneder and blunt - Erich Strolz
Photos: Günther Egger
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