On the ground floor and basement there is a great need to provide adequate light for your activity. This luminosity operates with the combination of materials and color, mainly white, red and blue. This polarity of tones energizes or calms the senses depending on the activity and location of the spaces.
The use of the circle figure works as constant in the project, it functions as a symbol of the community united in musical practice and it represents the idea of circular learning that this school wants to implement.
Description of project by Manuel Collado
The project for the Music School stems from a great conversation around the processes of musical learning. As a result of this symbiosis, key concepts emerged to which the architecture of the new space should respond: arouse musical curiosity / discover, the circle of collective practice and community, awareness of space and body and sustainability.
These concepts are developed using the following tools:
Light and color
Undoubtedly, the first key element in the conditioning of a room on the ground floor and basement is to provide it with suitable light qualities for the activity. We have sought to obtain as much natural light as possible inside, always negotiating with the requirement of acoustic isolation of music classrooms, to achieve this a circle of 2 m in diameter has been opened in the classroom “Water” of the entrance to that enters light in depth on the distributor spaces. A periscope element has been introduced on the “Earth” classroom of the mezzanine to connect interior and exterior lighting.
Energy
We have worked with energy in an innovative way at different levels; directly with a responsible management of the demand through the design of the installation and the type of contract. Afterwards, work has been done on the harmonization of more subtle energy patterns, combining materials and color, where the energies of the wood and the immersive blue tones of the classrooms are balanced with the fluid and dynamic energy of the common areas through red floors collective carpet mode. This polarity of tones energizes or calms depending on the activity. Environmental Intelligence is completed through a space-conscious organization following a distribution based on the I Ching and the five elements.
Music and geometry
The circle has been a constant in the idea of musical learning and works as a unifying geometry at different levels. First as a symbol of community in musical practice, transmitting the type of group musical interactions of this school. Second as an archetypal geometric symbol of the unit, where through its repetition at different scales, from lighting to openings of holes, it organizes a spatial form of musical composition. The environmental harmony is completed by the triangle that appears in the treatment of the baseboards and the square / rectangle of the classroom shapes. These three geometries are considered foundational in all traditions of environmental knowledge.
