Sunbeams Music Center / Napper Architects
Napper Architects shared their design for the Sunbeams Music Center, a project for a charity based in England that works with handicapped people of all ages. The project will be the first of its kind as it will offer a new music therapy center that is closely linked with its surroundings. The Sunbeams Music Trust, a charity started almost 15 years ago by local resident Annie Mawson, “uses music in a therapeutic way to encourage communication and social inclusion, build up self-esteem, and self-confidence, and improve quality of life, making a real difference in people’s lives.” The small charity has now grown to become one of the leading Arts In Health organizations in the United Kingdom. “We are thrilled Eden District Council has recognized that the Sunbeams Music Center will be an architecturally unique and inspirational building. Not only can Sunbeams transform the way they help people, the center is designed to enhance and work with the surrounding landscape,” explained Ms. Mawson.
More about the Music Center after the break.
The project, initially conceived for a final year thesis project in 2005 by then student and now Napper Architects employee Will Mawson, is based around “musical harmonies and the physical embodiment of the musical therapy process.” The 515 sqm building will rest on the outskirts of the Lake District looking down the Eamont Valley on land donated by a generous local benefactor, Anthony Leeming.
The surroundings offer the “key to the success of the therapy. The natural fall of the site allows the structure to become entrenched, maximizing passive thermal benefits of the earth. Outdoor venues around the building will provide a tranquil atmosphere for group work and performances.
The Center has received full planning permission and the charity is now looking for funding for the estimated £1.5 million pound project, around a third of which has already been secured.
Great concept and execution. I just wish there were some interior shots.
truly a masterpiece. the form, the drawings, hand renderings, even the waterspouts are sexy.
great work .. i like the materials and the way it is designed … but is there any particular reason for that shape which is chosen
Not important work.
And what is deemed ‘important work’?
All work is important to somebody. And I would say a music centre is more ‘important’ than say, a private house, or an office block.
Not important comment.
not important work? im assuming One only likes to see concert halls, museums and stadiums designed by important rockstars like FRANK GEHRY!!! DANIELLE LIEBSKIND!!!! REM COOOLHOUSE!!! STEPHEN HAUL!!!!
The music centre is not only suitable for the filed of music but also for yoga. I like the centre very much because it is mingled with nature and it is in green and white colour which gives the most effective appearance of this centre.
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nice concept sketch and renderings.
looked well built.
nice plan layout,..i personally liked to see the middle pod/ auditorium left open/ not divided into smaller rooms, a cleaner diagram perhaps…
Curved walls are often poorly integrated with the floor plan. Here, the firm crafted them very well and created some very memorable rooms linked by that common back bone.
Great work…like INawe, I’d love to see more interior shots as well. But the orientation, berming, material selection, and landscape integration is fantastic. Elegant stuff. Kudos!