Berklee College of Music, the world’s premier learning lab for contemporary music, and Walters-Storyk Design Group, renowned for their work on studios for Jimi Hendrix, Alicia Keys, and Bruce Springsteen, today announced the completion of a cutting edge recording/teaching complex at Berklee’s Valencia campus. Berklee’s new state-of-the-art campus is located at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain. The studio facility is the final element of Berklee’s first international campus, which recently launched its master’s programs.
Berklee Valencia Studio K Live Room : Image Courtesy Mercedes Herrán
Project: Berklee Opens World-Class Recording/Teaching Studio Complex
Location: Valencia, Spain
Photos by: Mercedes Herrán
Software used:
Revit – for acoustic accommodation details
AutoCAD – for power and conduit infrastructure drawings
Insul – for boundary isolation calculations
Proprietary WSDG RT60 Calculator – for internal room acoustic calculations
B&K 2250 sound level meter – for initial site acoustic measurements
The unifying element is a Great Red Curved Roof that shelters the sports that need to be covered, embrace those who are outdoors, and integrates and surrounded by recreational areas, leisure spaces, and attractive landscaped gardens.
Located on the outskirts and with an area of more than 13 hectares, the Project comprises two new football fields for 11-a-side and for 7-a-side, two indoor football pitches, two multipurpose covered courts, tennis courts, beach volleyball, paddle courts (indoor & outdoor), basketball and minibasketball courts, french boules, skating areas, pitch and putt, pools, Basque ball game (frontón), three playgrounds, athletics track ( eight streets) and a jogging path of two kilometers.
BERKLEE COLLEGE COMMISSIONS WSDG FOR MAJOR PROJECTS
Concurrent Work On Two Continents: Boston, Mass. & Valencia, Spain
In a patent message of confidence in education and the inherent strengths of the world economy, the Berklee College of Music has embarked on a significant expansion program. In Valencia, Spain, an entirely new campus opened in January, 2012. In Boston, the first ground-up building in Berklee’s 66-year history, 160 Massachusetts Avenue, a 16-story, $100 million structure, began construction in December 2011. While U.S. and Spanish architects were engaged to create strikingly disparate footprints for each of these bold projects, a single internationally recognized studio design and acoustical consultancy, the Walters-Storyk Design Group, was commissioned to create the audio education studios for both these learning complexes.
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This refurbished penthouse is located in a 1970s 16-storey building in Blasco Ibáñez Avenue, Valencia. The project takes the original highly fragmented layout and connects and widens the rooms by modifying the interior architecture through floor-to-ceiling hinged doors and sliding doors hidden in paneled walls.
The project is located in the “Jardín D`Obradors Sur”, pretending to be a new attraction for the people during the summer months. The materials are minimum: concrete, steel and glass. Raises twelve independent buildings. One for each of the different uses needed for the pools: access, showers, toilets, nursing, bar, and storage facilities. Monolithic concrete buildings bathed in natural light inside are forming a small square providing access to the pools. Three pools of different sizes and depths are distributed in the remaining areas of the ground. Around of them, recreational beach areas.
A project to affirm concepts: A perimeter full of content, indoor / outdoor character of spaces, plasticity of the structure as composite material, definition of areas and uses through flexible technical nodes, and the idea of a deep and solid façade that changes with the quality of the material.
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Joan Roig - Manuel Cerdá)
The apartment is on the first floor of a mid-19th century three-storey building, located in the city centre of Valencia.
Considering the limited gross area and the scant natural light, this refurbishment project partitioned only the night-time areas and enhanced the verticality of the dwelling to the utmost, making the most of its high ceilings. The project also created a glass box with large windows in the former gallery which gives onto a terrace over the roof of the covered patio on the ground floor.
Article source: Ramon Esteve Estudio de Arquitectura
The proposal of the building is to generate a construction that will be used for conventions, seminars and banquets supporting up to a thousand people. The organic geometry of the building developed under a circular grid, generates continuity between spaces, a stimulation to flow through them. The building sinuous shell line grants it with a kind character.
The project consists of a one story building at street level.
The site is influenced by two conditions that have been key aspects in the development of the project. In the first place the closeness to a highspeed traffic way, in Pio Baroja Avenue, and in the second place the remarkable height of the surrounding buildings. This took us to create a building focused on its inner court.
The new subway station of Alboraya-Palmaret is built together with a big park which highlights the new platform in a natural manner. The park has an approximated surface area of 6.000 square meters. It has seven terraces in different levels, leading us down, from the street to the hall of the new station. We can find in it resting areas, as well as playgrounds for children under the shadow of a large number of tress of different species.
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