TIVOLI VREDENBURG BY ARCHITECTUURSTUDIO HH

The Music Palace project is a collaborative venture of Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Tivoli and Stichting Jazz en Geïmproviseerde Muziek Utrecht (SJU).

These organizations will become one company. The diversity of music styles and expression will remain.

The “Muziekpaleis Utrecht” is a design to extend to the existing symphonic concert hall “Muziekcentrum redenburg” four new music halls: a chamber music hall hanging over the symphonic concert hall, a rock concert hall, a concert hall for jazz and a “cross over” auditorium.

Every type of music will have its own environment and is seen as a biotope. The building is meant to act as a music house for large music events in all the biotopes.

The design concept’s starting point is a diversity of concert halls under one roof, whereby each hall or ‘biotope’ has its own character.

This diversity is obvious from the outside. The Music Palace has five halls, one for each biotope.

The existing main auditorium is dedicated to the symphony biotope; the four new halls will be positioned above or beside the symphony hall. In the design the different halls are clearly recognizable.

The fact that the halls are kept separate (partly for acoustical considerations), and will be further elaborated by different architectural firms serves to reinforce their diversity.

This gives rise to different atmospheres to match the different kinds of music to be heard in the Music Palace.

Each of these architectural firms gives their own presentation of their hall: Jo Coenen & Co (Pop-Rock biotope), Architectuurcentrale Thijs Asselbergs (Jazz biotope), NL-Architects (Cross-Over biotope), Architectuurstudio HH for the Chamber Music biotope, the Symphony biotope (existing main auditorium block) and the remaining spaces.

Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands

Architect: Architectuurstudio HH

Project Team: Herman Hertzberger, Patrick Fransen, Geert Mol, Jeroen Baijens, Joeri Apontoweil, Tom Bergevoet, Maartje Nuy, Ilse Bakker, Freke Schalken, Cor Kruter, Francine van loon, Paul van Dijk, Sander Monteiro, Stephanie Lama, Wing Ung, Marijke Teijsse, Roos Eichhorn, Carloes Pollemans, Lars Zwirs, Arianne du Clou, Tim Cannock

Collaboration: Jo Coenen en Co, architectuurcentrale Thijs Asselbergs, NL architects

Total floor area: 31.000 m2 (21.500m2 new, 9.500m2 renovation)

Year: 2013

Client: Municipality of Utrecht, Projectorganisatie Stationsgebied

Photographers: UBIKmh, Architectuurstudio HH, Herman van Doorn

MULTIPURPOSE HALL MARKANT BY ARCHITECTUURSTUDIO HH

The official opening took place on November 22 by making the LED facade operational.

The new Markant Uden contains a large event hall with a capacity of 1100 people in addition to the existing theater of 700 people. Moreover there is a large restaurant and 4 smaller halls.

The typology of the Event Accommodation is based on a reflection of the structure that we designed for the Markant Theatre (1996).

Our starting point is that the whole reads like a coherent complex with own identities. The Event Hall and Theatre are located with (interchangeable) backstage and functions side by side.

These functions are like the technical rooms housed in the dark-grey thin volumes. Between these “finger-like volumes” is a new wide entrance space designed for the benefit of the whole accommodation Theatre and Event Hall.

The entrance foyer with its central location offers direct access to the halls, foyer and restaurant. The lot is small, this means a stacked program.

As the Event Hall itself has no direct functional relationship with ground level, it is raised to accommodate public functions on the ground floor as a restaurant. The expedition takes place completely internal, accessible from the Kastanjeweg.

The Event Hall is a flat floor-hall which can be used for many programmatic functions include: pop-concerts, events, exhibitions, dance shows, carnival, margin hall, youth events, dinners, parties and also for funerals.

Location: Uden, Holland 
Architects: Architectuurstudio HH 
Project Team: Patrick Fransen, Ilse Bakker, Onne Walsmit, Thys Schreij, Ivo Brandes, Joeri Apontoweil, Tim Loeters 
Gross floor area: 3.100 m2 new + 3.600 m2 renovation 
Year: 2013 
Client: Heven Group, Gemeente Uden/Theater Markant NV 
Photo: Architectuurstudio HH