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Commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris, this WA Community Awards 6th Cycle winner balances the

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strict needs of a world class concert hall, with the intricacies of the surrounding neighborhood and thegrandeur of the City of Paris. The work is the product of Jungmin Nam, an Award Winning architect nowWorking at KVA , in Boston, MA. He completed the project while as a student at the Harvard School ofDesign.

The building has clearly been designed to capture the views of Paris, providing the user with a myriad ofvisual experiences prior to even entering the concert hall itself. Nam wires that “the visual experienceemerges from the movement of people as they follow or their own circulation through the building.” Alongthe internal circulation pattern, the user will encounter views of the Eiffel Tower and the surroundinggrandeur that is central Paris.

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The approach to the structure is along a sloping extension of the existing promenades of the surrounding parkand serves to lift the user into the reception space, where they may continue down to the exhibition hall andmusic discovery area or up to the grand foyer along the continuous unfolding promenades. The promenadesserve as the circulation space around the concert hall area, but also provide the visitor with constant visualcontacts with the city providing the beginnings of a visual, tangible and acoustic experience.

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The Concert Hall itself is designed around a ‘Vineyard’ Configuration, providing all audience membersoptimal sight lines and frequency response. The sections of the Vineyard are dictated and delineated by theacoustic reflection walls. The end result is one of integration, where the audience is fully enveloped in theconcert experience, both visually and audibly.

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The site is located in the northeast corner of central Paris, within an transitional space between the citycenter and the surrounding suburban core. The building has been wisely oriented for optimal pedestrianconnectivity with pedestrian corridors linking the structure to the neighborhood and the Subway Station. Theresult is a site plan that respects the surroundings and neighborhood context as well as reflect the larger scale street grid.

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