SONIC ARCHITECTURE, A SOUNDING BOARD

The keys of the project:

- The Place: the Skjolden fjord, a valley full of convective currents that carry punctual and moving sound disturbances.

- The Character: an intimate refuge linked to a permanent thought on the figure of Claude Debussy, breaking with everything known in his search for innovative sounds with silence, restlessness, provocation and subtlety.

- The Material: the wooden Pinus sylvestris board, studying the control of acoustic transmittance through its tangential, radial and axial or transverse cuts.

- The Constructive System: a new way derived from the development process in the typical Norway construction from the palisade technique to that inverse of the Stavverk one.

- The Idea: making a soundboard, with a study of vibrations and sound disturbances in the effect of a compact volume and mass perforations and its relation with real environment.

- The Proposal: a sonic architecture in the board element bidirectional arrangement, building a network of perforations from the total closure of the box in winter, to its opening in summer. Boards are piling up to form a swastika relationship with a light and warm source, leading the box resonance according to external sounds and internal reverberations.

- The Reality: introducing an intimate box built by piling up a single element as a new constructive technique in the real resonance.