MUSIC Façade
When music starts material meets immaterial, metaphysic
embraces physic, visible surrenders to invisible…
CONCEPT
The enviable urban positioning of Pushkinsky
Cinema Hall at the Pushkin Square calls the architecture to spread over its
boundaries and to radiate into environment. Music Façade is an answer that
enlarges the field of influences of Pushkinsky Cinema Hall. Being an instrument
and making music this building can be turned into a notable element of the surrounding
space. Music Façade tries to expand the exact limits of the Pushkinsky Cinema
Hall and to broaden its field of influence. It uses the advantages of
technology and possibilities of DuPont products to turn the experience of the
building into an event and spectacle and to use the façade as a tool for its
accomplishment.
Music Façade ends where ends the sound that it produces...
REALIZATION
Music Façade is made out of hollow
Corian pipes of different lengths and radius that produce notes of musical
scale in ascending and descending order.
They are played by usage of wind flow caught by helix turbines on the top of
each pipe. The Music Façade is controlled by a system that stops turbines and
in that way it disables the wind flow, releasing only those pipes that are
intended to produce sound. The system can be computed by software or played by one
or more musicians in real time.
MATERIALIZATION
The façade’s pipes are hollow, made of
Corian, partially transparent and used as a music instruments.
The construction system that bears the
new façade of Corian Music Pipes is made of steel trusses set under the roof
construction and carried by the existing columns. Steel trusses are connected
by an edge steel beam that bears the load of all the Corian Music Pipes.