Commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris, this
WA Community Awards 6th Cycle
winner balances the strict needs of a world class concert hall, with
the intricacies of the surrounding neighborhood and the grandeur of the
City of Paris. The work is the product of Jungmin Nam, an Award Winning
architect now Working at
KVA , in Boston, MA. He completed the project while as a student at the
Harvard School of Design.
The building has clearly been designed to capture the views of Paris,
providing the user with a myriad of visual experiences prior to even
entering the concert hall itself. Nam wires that “the visual experience
emerges from the movement of people as they follow or their own
circulation through the building.” Along the internal circulation
pattern, the user will encounter views of the Eiffel Tower and the
surrounding grandeur that is central Paris.
The approach to the structure is along a sloping extension of the
existing promenades of the surrounding park and serves to lift the user
into the reception space, where they may continue down to the exhibition
hall and music discovery area or up to the grand foyer along the
continuous unfolding promenades. The promenades serve as the circulation
space around the concert hall area, but also provide the visitor with
constant visual contacts with the city providing the beginnings of a
visual, tangible and acoustic experience.
The Concert Hall itself is designed around a
‘Vineyard’ Configuration, providing all audience members optimal sight
lines and frequency response. The sections of the Vineyard are dictated
and delineated by the acoustic reflection walls. The end result is one
of integration, where the audience is fully enveloped in the concert
experience, both visually and audibly.
The site is located in the northeast corner of central Paris, within
an transitional space between the city center and the surrounding
suburban core. The building has been wisely oriented for optimal
pedestrian connectivity with pedestrian corridors linking the structure
to the neighborhood and the Subway Station. The result is a site plan
that respects the surroundings and neighborhood context as well as
reflect the larger scale street grid.
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