Rhapsody on a music school

Yesterday, as you will recall, I introduced myself, and proceeded to describe architecture as being a passion of mine.

So pray forgive me as I turn this entry over to describing my current University project.

The brief is to take a large urban site on the urban/suburban boundary of Lincoln and design a music school to be built there. There are to be 14 practice and percussion rooms, accommodation for 20 students, a library, 4 listening rooms and a concert hall to seat 150.

The site itself is on Brayford Waterfront, and consists of two startlingly inhumane 1970s office blocks, a pub, some rather pleasant Victorian offcies and an abandoned Victorian power station.

So, what do we do? Utilising the precedent in Lincoln to re-use old derelict buildings, I propose to utilise the turbine hall of the power station, and it's attendent offices, as my concert hall.

The 1970s structures I shall tear down and replace with a more humane structure in keeping with its surroundings. This shall be of similar overall dimensions of the power station, however the form itself shall reflect the attributes of music- harony, pitch, et al. The falling height of this building is also musically inspired. Between the two I intend to place a large open public space as a throughfare and also as an open air performance space.