The ‘’remaining spaces’’ between the exposed public functions consist of secondary serving spaces such as foyers, a restaurant, terraces, technical spaces and vertical transport.Ī continuous public route connects all public functions and “remaining spaces” located around the Grand Auditorium by means of stairs, platforms and escalators: the building becomes an architectural adventure. The building reveals its contents to the city without being didactic at the same time the city is exposed to the public inside in a way that has never happened before. OMA addressed the relationship between the Concert Hall and the public inside as well as outside the building by considering the building as a solid mass from which were eliminated the two shoe-box-shaped concert halls and all other public program creating a hollowed out block. A majority knows their exterior shape, only a minority knows what happens inside. Most cultural institutions serve only part of a population. Where to innovate in a case of a traditional typology like the concert hall? However, after researching the acoustic quality of existing concert halls we had to conclude together with our acoustic specialist that the best halls in the world have a shoe box shape. This century has seen an architecturally frantic attempt to escape from the tyranny of the notorious ‘’shoe-box’’ shaped concert hall. Through both continuity and contrast, the park on the Rotunda da Boavista, after our intervention, is no longer a mere hinge between the old and the new Porto, but it becomes a positive encounter of two different models of the city. With this concept, issues of symbolism, visibility and access were resolved in one gesture. Since this part of Porto was still a city ‘’intact’’, OMA chose not to articulate the new concert hall as a segment of a small scale circular wall around the Rotunda da Boavista but to create a solitary building standing on the new, more intimate square connected to the historical park of the Rotunda da Boavista and enclosed by three urban blocks. Photos by Nicolas Firket (AMO) Courtesy of Office for Metropolitan Architecture In this context five international architectural practices, amongst which was OMA, were invited to participate in a restricted competition for a new concert hall to be positioned in the historical centre of Porto, the Rotunda da Boavista. Photos by Charlie Koolhaas, Courtesy of Office for Metropolitan ArchitectureĪfter Porto was selected one of the two cultural capitals of Europe in 2001, the Minister of Culture and the city of Porto founded Porto 2001, an organisation which was to initiate and prepare different urban and cultural interventions for the city of Porto. Stirling Prize Awards : Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlist RIBA Awards 2007 – this building was a winner of a RIBA European Award 2007 Photo by Charlie Koolhaas, Courtesy of Office for Metropolitan Architecture Info from Office for Metropolitan Architecture: Oporto Concert Hall Building design by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), The Netherlands Casa da Música by OMA, Architect, Photos, Arquitetura Portuguesa, Design, Pictures Casa da Música, Porto Architecture
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