Royal College of Music
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
AIX Arkitekter
ARCHITECTS
AIX Arkitekter
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT
LN Akustikmiljö
MANUFACTURERS
Gustafs, TECU®, Forbo Flooring Systems, Höganäs, Alistron
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM BUILDING
Jasmina Jovanović Holm, Helena Ekelund, Anders Rosenberg, Silvia Las Heras, Marco Antonio Martins Ferreira, Sigrid Zenger, Filip Håkansson, Björn Wikmark, Lena Lynch, Sabbe Puskas, Mats Duvnäs, Mats Dahlgren, Eva-Lena Hanses, Per Odebäck, Linnéa Zickerman, Christine Lavelid, Lars Pålsson, Peder Lindbom, Lars Öste, Ethna McDermott, Susanna Bremberg, Sibylle Maurer, Lotta Lindgren
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM CONCERT HALLS
Therese Alston, Jonne Lidström, Bo Jacobsen
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM STUDIOS
Therese Alston, Bo Jacobsen, Stephan Kühn.
ART
Ebba Matz
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM STAGE AND THEATER
Filip Håkansson, Peder Lindbom, Stephan Kühn
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT CONCERT HALLS
Akustikon, Norconsult AB
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Incoord
WATER/VENTILATION/HEATING ENGINEER
Incoord
FACADES
ASC Pawel Filipek
CARCASS/SHELL
UPB AS, Riga
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Hillstatik
ACOUSTIC PANELS
Gustafs
ACCESSIBILITY
Sweco Sverige AB
INTERIOR DESIGN
Sweco Sverige AB
CLIENTS
Akademiska Hus and the Royal College of Music
VENTILATION
Gunnar Karlsén Sverige
MAIN CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
NCC Building
ARCH CONSERVATION EXPERTISE
Johan Engström
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Funkia
PROJECT MANAGAGEMENT
Hedström and Taube
CITY PLAN
Stockholms City Planning Office, Aleksander Wolodarski och Susanna Stenfelt
PHOTOGRAPHS
Åke E:son Lindman, Peder Lindbom
AREA
21000 m²
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Stockholm, Sweden
CATEGORY
University
Text description provided by architect.
A music workshop cloaked in shimmering gold glass that arouses curiosity and anticipation.
The goal has been ambitious – to create the world’s most modern college of music. Along the way, we faced several challenges.
Aside from overall high demands on tone control and noise insulation, the educational environment also contains public spaces for performances and experiences.
From the exterior, the composition of the new buildings for the College of Music has been interwoven with the listed historic stable facility, creating an inviting whole that enriches both the activities within and the urban landscape.
At the Royal College of Music, 21,600 square meters of musical experiences have taken shape and as of 2016 are part of the cultural scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Europe.
The new composition of the campus for the Royal College of Music, with new buildings interwoven with old buildings, in a complex inner city situation with valuable cultural heritage buildings to be preserved, has resulted in architecture with a unique and strong identity.
The void of the old stable courtyard is also part of the cultural heritage and creates a secluded but completely open public space to be used both by students, teachers and passer-by.
The main building, new and cloaked in shimmering gold glass, is combined with a more restrained plastered wing, which serves as an entrance to the campus through a portico.
Suspended in the portico a bespoke and permanent artwork is created by artist Ebba Matz.
The sculpture’s name is “Sch, tyst, lyssna” which means “hush, silent, listen”.
In the stone paving leading up to the entrance a sketch with the name “there is no such thing as silence” is engraved.
The entrance is situated to the south and allows also for a generous and welcoming outdoor space with an ancient oak tree cautiously preserved on site and in company with new greenery and places to sit in the sun.
Architectural themes have been the notions of music workshop, rhythm and gold-shimmering brass, all of which are also visible in the choice of materials.
The college contains four public concert halls for teaching, education and performance.
Each hall is designed for different kinds of musical focus with different acoustical needs and this has resulted in four unique characters.
The entrance hall in the main building is the “heart of the school” where all the movements, communications and entrances to the halls are gathered. The restaurant here is also open for all.
The requirements of tone control have called for a great deal of collaboration with acoustic consultants.
Acoustic sound insulation is very ambitious from an international perspective for music colleges, and the insulation degree is very high even between rehearsal rooms and corridors, many rooms are constructed as floating constructions with no contact to the main structure of the building, which has been a challenge for all consultants and contractors.
All structural principles, materials, heating fixtures and lighting and are carefully chosen to meet the extremely high acoustical criteria.
