That picture alone is enough to pique my interest; a music room nestled within a roof shed, crowned by a skylight with linear LEDs for supplementary lighting. It’s exciting in its own right, even more so when you throw musicians into the mix. But that’s just the start! For it is part of a monastery that has been artfully turned into a music conservatory.
While the above music room is in a new wing, there’s plenty of great examples where old and new are mixed to create something special. Like the former cloister turned dining hall, roofed over in a sandblasted glass that makes the restored white plaster surfaces glow.
Or the hallways and stairwells, and the monastic cells/bedrooms…
Culminating in a second music room in the rafters, this time in the historical portion of the building, with light streaming down to accentuate the rough hewn lumber framing. And airy and mystical place for practice.
A wonderful piece of adaptive reuse, and knowing much I love adaptive reuse there’s no way I can’t fall in love with this. Great stuff.
Synergy (From a Monastery to Music Conservatory), by Brückner & Brückner Architekten
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