THE AUTHOR’S VISION–
Assuming the proposed indication of the notice as a guide line for the project, the House of Hungarian Music is not only a building to experiment or present music but, metaphorically speaking, “it will be music turned into a building”. The HHM is not only an exhibition center, but also an institution offering wide-ranging experiences and performing educational functions.
The City Park is a place with a life in constant turmoil and the new building has to be able to welcome, include and facilitate these dynamics in relation with the others cultural buildings, to transform the whole park in an important and unique center for contemporary creativity. The new building is called to relate itself with the surrounding park and its users facilitating the presentation of works of other arts linked to music.
It is a place for teaching and learning, practicing and obtaining information on hungarian musical heritage, a venue for meetings and a public square, a tranquil venue for various activities connected to sound and music, a venue for family programs, a venue to interactively experience the world of music, a venue where citizens and tourists can perceive the freshness of the contemporary creativity of hungarian people.
The emphasis is given to the experiential, interactive and playful presentation, which makes the integration of the public an easy task. Modern technology will be used in a way that allows the House of Music to follow rapidly changing technical developments.
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According to the required program the new building will host permanent and temporary exhibitions, indoor and outdoor concerts, various social programs connected to music.
The program is organized with the public and opened functions on the ground floor and, on the first floor, the sound exhibition that presents its visitors with the experience of creating sound compositions: using special installations and technical solutions it allows visitors to feel the very beginnings of music, the physiology of sensing sounds and naturally, last but not least, it can also be used as a concert or dance hall.
“The HHM presents the full spectrum of the history of Hungarian music in a fun way and where temporary exhibitions and music-related programs are organized with solid music pedagogical and music andragogical activities.” Is an educational centre providing all-round experience with a strong museum and music pedagogical focus. The HHM will meet the strictest music professional requirements and, at the same time, it should offer attractive programs to people who love music or those who only seldom experience music. In addition it should also serve as a venue for family programs.
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The permanent exhibition is focused on several sections: The first one provides information and experiences on natural sciences about the physics of sound and the physiological nature of hearing: anechoic room, pink or white sound, concepts of vibration, refraction frequency, tone, noise, shroeder duffusors, infrasound, ultrasound, speed of sound, sound tail….).
In the permanent exhibition several topics about music related with other disciplines will be presented: Music and informatics, music and cinema, music and maths, music and art, music and physics,
music and medicine, music and architecture, music and nature…. Another section will be dedicated to musical instruments divided in aerophones, chordophones, membranophones, idiophones, electrophones.
A further section will be dedicated to history of music and another one about the main authors and compositions of classical music but also provides an insight into the Hungarian folk music and into the world of contemporary music, pop music and operetta.
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The exhibition will focus on music and experiences. The HHM will ensure that every visitor meets the music in a creative way, and has the chance to play music and games, or even perhaps compose music at the permanent exhibition.
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ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT–
The challenge is to turn music into a building doing it in the sense of the 21st century architecture. The HHM presents itself as a musical instrument, as a living organism able to change its aspect with the change of day-light, it is a vibrating organism from which to emanate sounds and music that will diffuse their positive influence in the park.
The transposition in architecture is not literal but mainly conceptual. As a musical instrument, the building presents a more hermetic and close case facing the exterior in correspondence of east, north and south elevations and a more organic interior with a more complex articulation of the volumes organizing the facades facing the lake and characterizing the square of the events that is an integrated part of the program.
The building recalls the sinuosity of the case of most of the musical instruments, with a smooth exterior, noble and elegant and a technical interior where music takes place, as in a piano or in a guitar. The project proposes the same compositive duality.
The building reinterpretates the shapes of a new and unknown instrument that has been decomposed and recomposed in architectural terms. This contemporary architecture recalls some formal references of some classical instruments as brasses and woodwinds. A plurality of contemporary domes will emanate the sounds of the activities in progress in the inside.
In the interior, the use of organic and authonomous cells permits to easily separate the rooms where all the activities take place. Inside the building, cells of different dimensions are present.
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The common external tratement of the cells returns and ordered image while, on the contrary, in the inside, each cell is covered with a different material and is characterized by different geometries to better respond to the acoustic performance characteristics. From the preliminary phase of the project this formula permits a big flexibility in order to adapt the program to the distribution and dimensions required without changing the architectural concept.The sequences of these sinuous rooms is itself music and rhythm. Permanent and temporary exhibitions can be organized inside this sound units easily interconnected but with the possibility to be acoustically separated.
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The program is distributed on two levels. A third level is dedicated to administration and offices and an underground level is basically dedicated to plants, artefacts handling, deposits and parking. The design of the facades is obtained with vertical slabs made with polished or satin brass. In the east facades, facing the lake the slabs are made by brass and wood. The rhythm that organizes the vertical elements of each facade is designed as a transposition a kind of music taken from the Hungarian music heritage.
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SITE RELATIONS–
Placed in the green hearth of the City Park the HHM looks for a straight relation with the artificial lake, the volumes elevate their sightseeing towards west. Some other cantilever volumes emphasizes the importance of two other important points: the entrance and the relation with the green event space towards north.
The project includes the design of a big public square in east direction with the important function to join the new building with the grid of pedestrian and public transportation roads inside the park.Organic but clear lines define the language of the new building ad its relation with nature and with music.Polished and satin brass is the main material used in the external facades. The reflexion of the surrounding trees and vegetation will contribute to dematerialize the building and to assign ambiguity and richness in the general composition. The reflexion of the colours of the atmosphere will give a changing image during the different seasons and hours during the day. This will transform the building in a live presence reactive to the conditions of the natural environment.
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SUPPORTING STRUCTURE–
It was decided to adopt a mixed structure which includes steel columns and beams and slabs of orthotropic knitted pattern varied according to free lights to be covered and the functions contained. In choosing the type of structure, the acoustic aspects and the overall environmental sustainability were taken into account. The structures of horizontal elements are established, for the first floor, second and coverage coffered wood collaborating concrete mixed structure supported by steel columns. This property allows a reduction of loads on the foundations and also locally matching metal – wood or insertion of bars post outstretched, a complex of constructive choices that may allow the overcoming of the major free lights and cantilevered in the architectural solution. The static scheme relies on the general stability of the complex structures of the concrete walls of the stairwells and elevators which are entrusted with the horizontal forces : the earthquake, wind and contrast the phenomena of instability.
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SUSTAINABILITY–
The Building aims at the Excellent Rating according to BREEAM International for New Construction 2013 Bespoke. At pre-assessment stage all required Minimum Standards for BREEAM Excellent are complied, and the final estimated score is 83%. The water management strategy aims at the reduction of potable water usage. Potable water is used for point-of-use water coolers, toilets sinks and showers, restaurants sinks and washing machines. In addition potable water integrates the rainwater harvesting system, dedicated to WC flush, irrigation (of garden and green roof) and lake filling.
The consumption of both harvested and potable water is reduced providing suitable features, such as double flush WC, reduced flush sinks and showers, photosensors and time controllers, anti-leakage systems, drip feed subsurface irrigation, etc.
SUDs (Sustainable Drainage Systems) are provided to reduce pollution and to reduce the site run-off volume.
Energy strategy and renewable:
The proposed building uses a ground water heat pump to produce hot and chilled water. During cooling period (summer) groundwater is directly used by radiant ceilings and chilled beams to provide free-cooling in occupied spaces. Chilled water produced by heat pump is used as integration to free-cooling and in Air Handling Units (AHUs) coils for dehumidification purposes. Domestic hot water is produced by heat pump or, eventually, by the district heating network.
During heating period (winter) hot water is produced by heat pump. It supplies Low Temperature Hot Water (LTHW) network (radiant ceiling and chilled beams) and High Temperature Hot Water (HTHW) network (domestic hot water and AHUs coils). In case of District Heating presence, both LTHW and HTHW networks will be connected to it. To cover part of the electricity demand of the building, photovoltaic glasses are placed on the roof of the office bulding. Their production is estimated as 50 MWh/year. A BMS (Building Management System) is provided for the building, covering the following functions: Monitoring of energy consumption and production, Monitoring of water consumption and harvesting, Water leak detection and prevention, Indoor conditions control (temperature, humidity, CO2, light, presence, etc.) Safety and Security management, Maintenance (Automatic alert to Management Team and automatic maintenance order submission, automatic update of building’s BIM model)
Appropriate comfort conditions for building users will be verified according to thermal comfort criteria reported in ISO 7730-2005 (Annex A – table A.1 – Category B). Occupied spaces achieve a PMV between -0.5 and +0.5, and a PPD of less than 10% during occupied hours in the several seasons.
According to values proposed by EN 12464 and best practices guides, the following issues will be verified performing accurate analyses with simulation software: Daylight Factor, Illuminance level and uniformity, Glare
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