EJMA

The Jazz and Contemporary Music School building sets one of the first parts of the revival of the industrial Flon area of Lausanne. The situation of the old free port in a valley dictates urban form: contiguity, entire plot to occupy orthogonality and extrusion are then the guidelines of the urban settlement.

Simple in design, the building refers clear picture quality primarily due to choice of materials and their homogeneous in nature. The formal aspect, extruded solid block facade is reinforced by the presence of metal venetian blinds slats that conceal the top two levels while allowing natural light quality get inside.

With these foundations, then it is to meet the high standards of sound transmission and acoustic comfort for the study of music. A very neat implementation of drawbars, partitions and thresholds, based on information developed particularly like the non-parallel walls to prevent reverberation, were appropriate.

The internal organization is structured around a central void lit from overhead, where students meet up, observe and improvise musical sessions. Offices, individual studios or classrooms are in turn arranged symmetrically around this meeting hall. True heart of the school, the atrium bathed in natural light dramatizes the time and space of the jazz school, turning every moment into the building in a scenic and spatial experience.