as part of an urban redevelopment project aimed at revitalizing the center of blaibach, germany, architect peter haimerl has designed the town’s concert hall as a stone clad rectangular volume, which emerges from the ground with an inclined orientation. the building’s tilt produces the slope necessary for the auditorium’s seating, while also creating the building’s main entry from the adjacent public square. inside, the hall’s surfaces are made of overlapping pre-cast concrete panels, whose composition conceals the lighting and regulates acoustical qualities of the space.
when entering the building from blaibach’s new village square, guests descend down a staircase beneath the angled volume, to reach a wood-clad foyer containing access to functional areas such as the wardrobe, bathrooms, and bar. the space circulates around the tilted volume, leading to the inner concert hall.
inside the hall, a series of angular layers overlap with an orientation to the stage below. LED bulbs are discretely integrated within the walls and ceiling, to produce gradients of indirect light across the unfinished and variably-textured concrete surfaces. the auditorium’s seating is intended to be visually transparent and seemingly floating, composed of steel wire chairs supported by slender fins beneath. the space’s stage has been designed for the particular conditions of musical performances, as opposed to being flexible for multifunctional purposes.