Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli designs music school with patterned concrete walls
Architecture office Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli has completed a music school in Bressanone, Italy, comprising monolithic concrete volumes decorated with a subtle hand-hammered pattern.
Trevino-based Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli designed the Music School of Bressanone, which was founded in 1961 and is one of the South Tyrol region's most important cultural institutions.
The Music School of Bressanone is located in Italy's South Tyrol region
The music school is located close to Bressanone's historic centre and forms part of a larger redevelopment of the area, which includes the introduction of a two-level underground car park, a climbing wall, a municipal swimming pool and a public square.
The building lines the northern edge of the future plaza, and incorporates public thoroughfares and a tunnel that will connect the square with the car park and other amenities. Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli built the school using patterned reinforced concrete
The project comprises a compact volume arranged over three storeys above ground and part of the basement level. This structure emerges above a two-storey structure that wraps around the site.
"To mitigate the impact on the city skyline, the top floor is set back from the line of the external facades, obtaining an optical effect that dissolves the perception of the building," the architects explained.
"The elevations are also conceived as wall faces, whose treatments change in relation to the context, in order to resonate...
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