JS Bach Chamber Music Hall is Zaha Hadid Architects’ latest
project for the Manchester International Festival. ZHA has created a
chamber music hall for solo performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s
chamber music masterpieces. The project’s form, a suspended ribbon of
translucent lightweight synthetic fabric (150 g/m2) articulated by an
internal steel structure, translates the intricate relationships of
Bach’s harmonies into an architectural spatial condition.
The design of the music hall ”enhances the multiplicity of Bach’s work
through a coherent integration of formal and structural logic. A single
continuous ribbon of fabric swirls around itself, creating layered
spaces to cocoon the performers and audience with in an intimate fluid
space,” explained Hadid. The ribbon wraps around the stage, the
audience and itself, creating different layered conditions by
“alternately compressing to the size of a handrail then stretching to
enclose the full height of the room.”
The undulating surface of the fabric shell in a “constant yet changing
rhythm” creates a “soft billowing effect”. When the hall is not in
use, programmed lighting and a series of dispersed musical recordings
will activate the spaces between the ribbon.
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