Pavillon 21
- Mini Opera Space - Marstallplatz, Munich, Germany
Architect
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COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
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Date
Built
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2008 - 2010
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Location
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Marstallplatz
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Description
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Pavillion 21 was
built to as a temporary perormance space
for use during the 2010 Munich Opera
Festival. It was described as "dismountable, transportable
and re-mountable whilst retaining a
distinctive, unusual form."
The seating capacity is 300 but it was
possible to accommodate 700 people
standing.
The architects, Coop Himmelblau say that
the shape was formed, "via 'soundscaping'."
They go on to explain that, "As a starting point towards the
abstraction of music into spatial form, a
sequence from the song ‘Purple Haze’ by
Jimi Hendrix and a passage from ‘Don
Giovanni’ by Mozart were transcribed.
Through the analysis of frequency,
sections from these pieces of music and
through the combination with the computer
generated 3D model, the sequences are
translated into pyramidal ‘spike
constructions’ by means of parametric
‘scripting’.”
Although Pavillion 21 was intended to be a
temporary structure it was still in place
in June of 2011 when I took these
photographs. |
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