Casa Della Musica Rem Koolhaas

Missing just two weeks to close koolhaas realized that using the same concepts as for this house meet the requirements set for the contest of oporto.

Casa della musica rem koolhaas. The casa da música is a concert hall in porto portugal it was designed by architect rem koolhaas and opened in 2005. Always open and giving citizens not just open during sporadic events. Casa da música s project was set in motion in 1999 as a result of an international architecture tender won by the project presented by rem koolhaas office for metropolitan architecture.

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Built for versatility it is designed to attract a large and eclectic mix of both performers and visitors. Casa da musica reveals its contents without being didactic. Casa da musica the past thirty years have seen frantic attempts by architects to escape the domination of the shoe box concert hall.

We chose not to build the new concert hall in the ring of old buildings defining the rotunda but to create a solitary. Locating the casa da musica was key in the development of oma s thinking. We chose not to build the new concert hall in the ring of old buildings defining the rotunda but to create a solitary building standing on a travertine paved plateau in front of the rotunda s park neighbouring.

Excavations began in 1999 at the old tram s terminus station in boavista roundabout rotunda da boavista and casa da musica was inaugurated in the spring of 2005 on april 15th. Locating the casa da musica was key in the development of oma s thinking. By redefining the relationship between the hollowed interior and the general.

Following a design competition won by the office for metropolitan architecture oma and arup in 1999 the vision of casa da música was realised in april 2005. In this study the aim was to study envelopes and ground conditions of casa da musica in porto by rem koolhaas. Rather than struggle with the inescapable acoustic superiority of this traditional shape the casa da musica attempts to reinvigorate the traditional concert hall in another way.