GEMMA DIAZ + PAVLINA KRIKI // FAVELAS. ATLAS CONCEPTS
sound concepts- STUDY CENTER
INVISIBLE architecture: Instruments
“Listen!” said Peter Zumthor, the Swiss architect, in a lecture delivered at Germany’s Wendlinghausen Castle in 2003. “Interiors are like large instruments, collecting sound, amplifying it, transmitting it elsewhere.” Since sound, unlike instantaneous sight, trav- els over time, the ear also remembers.
PROGRAM
People in the favelas often are living with
too many people in usually cramped spaces.
No time to be alone, to time to concentrate if
- ne wants or needs.
We provide the space for each individual or selected group to come together and be able to
concentate to the task at hand.
The rooms are isolated, devoid of any outside sound and create all the necessary circum- stances to study, play an instrument, read, argue with a collaborator Simultaneously we create a theme park of sounds that affect emotions, through architec- tural elements, such as space and materiality
> SKATE PARK > VIDEO GAMES ROOMS > ISOLATED CHAMBERS (studying/ reading) > GROUP STUDY ROOMS > CONFERENCE HALLS > CAFETERIA > PERFORMANCE STAIRS > LIBRARY > RECEPTION/ LOBBY