Centro de la Música/ Emerging Music and Arts Centre
South America - Bolivia - La Paz
Discipline: Architecture
Categories: cultural
Designer(s): Juan Luis Pereyra
Universidad Privada del Valle
Facultad de Arquitectura
Tutor(s): Arq. Viviana Hernaiz Diez de Medina
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Music and Arts in general are expressions of the human soul since the beggining of history , it is well know that this expressions emerge as a part of society needs , the city of Sucre has a long tradition of many great selfthought artist and musicians emerging from streets and improvised places due to it's majority young population, this kind of expressions in Sucre will always demand proper places to develop this expressions of music and arts in general.
The projects aim is to provide spaces dedicated to the teaching and learning of music in all its aspects in the city of Sucre, capital of Bolivia the program contains a college of superior studies, both indoor and outdoor spaces for musical performance , sound interaction, investigation and experimentation,as well as ludic and multifuncional spaces for performing and plastic arts .
The project works as a catalizer for urban development as it is located in the expanding area of the city, creating landmarks for urban planning in the near future ,and respecting the urban enviroment of the old downtown as it was designed Unesco's 'Patrimonial Historical City of Humanity' for its urban and architectural characteristics
Such an intervention is justified by the population interests and requirements and the need to look forward in future and integrate to the global network of answers that architecture can give, based on urban , socio-economical and ambiental issues.
The design's goal was to generate a musical lenguage from the architectural perspective, to materialize sound and music based in in the principles of sound as a concept generator, soundwaves were used to generate the spacial envelope as a unifying element through out the entire project.
The design's generative architecture articulates the space through it's basic Soundwaves compositive elements which are capable of creating complex structures with specific methods regarding functionallity , structure , form ,from and for the artist sensibility