Project 3 - Music school

Felipe Franklin
N0600389

Brief
This project caters for a special client, the key specifics you will define but your project will cater for approximately a 3 class learning environment in an
alternative way. In this project we will explore types of alternative learning environments and we will build within our geographical zone.
We will first personally observe the site, research and write our brief, analyse similar and related case studies, explore our creativity and establish our
vision for the future of this typology.

JAZZ school
The school will be focused in the practice, it will not be a formation school, it will be a improvement school. As the Jazz itself the ideia is to improvise,
practice and do spontaneous music with different peaple, dealing with different formations! So, because of this, the school will require participation
of everyone in different musical groups, everyone will interact and develop their skills in groups ( the main group here will be the trio, independent of
the instrument) with this idea the students will deal with different instruments and musicians, it will make them develop the ability to work in groups
and improvise in different situations.
To make this come true, every term all the groups will be ended with a big apresentation on the open theatre and remade in a different formation.
The design of the school follows this ideia, everything was arranged around a big social space to incentivate all the students to meet, to talk and to
produce music together. Provide places to let spontaneous music happen!

Moarning

Afternoon

Night

8:00
9:00
10:00
11:00

14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00

18:00
19:00
20:00
21:00

All the school classes will be divided in 3 periods, moarning, afternoon and night. Doing this the school
will be able to have 90 students attending to the classes with just 6 professors. The students will practice
in groups and the classes will take 1 hour each per group.

Precedents
Montpelier Community Nursery - London
AY Architects
'Montpelier Community Nursery is located within Montpelier Gardens in Kentish Town. The nursery is part of Camden Community Nurseries and provides
voluntary sector affordable childcare for 2-5 yr olds.
The new facility has an increase from 18 to 24 nursery places. It supports a pedagogic ethos of inclusivity, free play, learning through nature and ecological
responsibility. It is designed around a flexible play space opening onto a wooded outdoor play area that forms part of the community gardens. Support
spaces wrap around the central space and form a solid perimeter to the public land. Daylight is brought into the building through strip windows located
within the roof. The roof windows also provide natural ventilation. The superstructure is made up of pre-fabricated solid timber panel system with a
white-washed internal factory finish. The exterior is clad with dark stained FSC timber boarding and the roof supports a biodiversity sedum blanket.'
The idea of flexible spaces is something that I can apply in my design too, I think that this fits really well to a music school too. And the design around a
open social space is awesome, principally to a music school where the main idea is to share knowledge, share experiences making music!

Precedents
D.S Nursery - Japan
HIBINOSEKKEI, Youji no Shiro
'The site is surrounded by rice field where wind blows through well. This is one of the areas with much quantity of wind-generated electricity in Japan, and
this project is based on the concept of wind.
Consequently, even while maintaining the independence, there is a sense of unity through the corridor and courtyard.
And it secures natural lighting and ventilation by the opening of the high-side windows of classrooms and playroom, and windows of the corridor, which is
not to depend on the machine.
Where children use is shown the timber beams and it expresses that it is timber building. Even out of those, lunch room is created a state close to the
natural environment by timber fitting of large opening and terrace connect with full of green courtyard. Children enjoy lunchtime in this comfortable
space.
The green courtyard can be see and accessed from any place is planned as a place where children create play and discover small from various planting.'
(ArchDaily, 2014)
Again I highlighted some interesting ideas presented by the architect: A concept - try to work with one to make everything go together; make it independent but connected at the same time, developed it around something that can connect all the elements; green and open spaces to incentivize the interaction between students.

Precedents
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts - EUA
Le Corbusier
'The first and only building in the United States designed by the 20th Century master architect Le Corbusier sits among some of the oldest buildings that
date back to before the United States was organized. Completed in 1963, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is located on Harvard Universitys campus.
Designed in conjunction with Chilean architect Guillermo Jullian de la Fuentes and Josep Lluis Sert dean of Harvards GSD at the time, the Carpenter
Center stands out among the traditional architectural styles of Harvard Yard as a combination of Le Corbusiers earlier modernist works.
Designed to be home to Harvards visual arts, the Carpenter Center houses large open studio spaces for students to work and showcase their art.
Unlike the buildings of Harvard Yard and even those of Corbusiers earlier works, the Carpenter Center takes on a less than traditional approach to the
design and organization of the interior spaces. Rather the Carpenter Center is a mix of Corbusiers earlier works with the typical beton-brut concrete, angled
brise soleils that were used in Chandigarh, and ondulatoires [narrow windows] found in La Tourette were implemented into the centers facade system.
Unfortunately, Le Corbusier was never able to see the completed building because of his failing health. However, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
continues to maintain the largest 35mm film collection in the New England region, as well as housing Harvards historic film archives.' (Kroll, 2011)

Precedents
Budapest Music Center (BMC) - Budapest
Art1st Design Studio
Lszl Gz, trombonist and music teacher, founded BMC Ltd.17 years ago. Since 1996, the company has been engaged in promoting classical, contemporary and jazz music. Their activities are extremely diverse: operating the Hungarian Music Information Database and Library, working as a record company,
organizing and managing events. The Hungarian Music Information Database is committed to the collection and classification of Hungarian classical, jazz,
and contemporary music pieces, and to making that database available to the national and international public. (ArchDaily, 2013)

Precedents
Red Bull Music Academy - Spain
Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos
'The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a nomadic annual music festival. For the last 14 years, this event has been held in a different world city, welcoming
the sixty pre-selected international participants and surrounding them with musicians, producers, and DJs, thereby giving them the opportunity to experiment with and exchange knowledge and ideas about the world of music.
A medium-term project, The Nave de Msicain Matadero Madrid The RBMA launched the programming for the new Nave de Msica (music warehouse), a
space specifically dedicated to audio creationand research. Using the existing installation as a starting point and given its experimental character, the
construction project was approached as a temporary structure based on the criteria of adaptability and reversibility that would make it easy to completely
or partially reconfigure over time.' (ArchDaily, 2012)

Precedents
Red Bull Music Academy - Spain
Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos
'The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a nomadic annual music festival. For the last 14 years, this event has been held in a different world city, welcoming
the sixty pre-selected international participants and surrounding them with musicians, producers, and DJs, thereby giving them the opportunity to experiment with and exchange knowledge and ideas about the world of music.
A medium-term project, The Nave de Msicain Matadero Madrid The RBMA launched the programming for the new Nave de Msica (music warehouse), a
space specifically dedicated to audio creationand research. Using the existing installation as a starting point and given its experimental character, the
construction project was approached as a temporary structure based on the criteria of adaptability and reversibility that would make it easy to completely
or partially reconfigure over time.' (ArchDaily, 2012)