A house for music, all made in wood, to bring new architecture quality for the people of l’Aquila after the earthquake of last 6th of April 2009 it´s on process and the author is our "all-time-favorite archistar" Piano.The new temporary auditorium will rise in the park near the castle, it will be made of wood brought from Trentino (the region that already helped the reconstruction with new ready-made earthquake-proof wood housing modules) and will have 250 seats, for a total predicted cost of 5 million € (7.250.000 $).
The shape, a cube laid on a edge, is inspired by an harmonic case of an instrument, to perform the typical sound requests of a music hall. Renzo Piano (RPBW Architects) already designed the Auditorium – Parco della Musica in Rome, with organic-shape wood shells on the ceiling and the Prometeo Musical Space in Venice, inspired by ships' wood plating .
This project is very significant for the people of l'Aquila, deeply wounded by the earthquake and was formally requested by the famous Italian conductor Claudio Abbado after his concert in l'Aquila (June 2009), wishing a new place where to perform music events. In these sad days, reporting the new huge nature disaster of the Haiti's earthquake, architects do have the power to drastically improve the situation, helping with their projecting skills and design culture the hit populations and providing new safer and better spaces. The project should be completed for September 2010 and will temporarily substitute a new definitive project until this last one will come. / Adriano Occhibelli
A house for music, all made in wood, to bring new architecture quality for the people of l’Aquila after the earthquake of last 6th of April 2009 it´s on process and the author is our "all-time-favorite archistar" Piano.
