KULTURPALAST DRESDEN

摘要

Only three months after the opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg a few hundred kilometers up the river another new concert hall was opened: the Kulturpalast in Dresden. In the existing building, a monument from the East-German sixties, the former congress hall was demolished and a new vineyard concert hall was realized. In this paper it is described how the acoustics goals evolved and how they lead the ground structure for this concert hall design. In Dresden the orchestra was strongly involved in the formulation of the acoustic goals. Although it was quite clear that from an architectural perspective the hall should have a vineyard shape, acoustically the demands came closer to the famous classical shoebox halls. Extensive research and intensive design cooperation with the architect led to a hall that can be seen as a combination of the existing vineyard type of hall, but with a sound quality, spaciousness and envelopment that more resembles the classical shoe box type.