Site design and schematic design for a new concert hall at Kinhaven Music School in Vermont. For over 60 years, Kinhaven has offered summer music camps for serious young musicians. Having outgrown their current performance space, they turned to WARE for assistance in envisioning a future concert hall. In addition to suggesting 6 possible site locations, we were also investigating the possibility of re-using a heavy timber structure from a nearby barn.
The structural module of the re-used wooden beams dictated a longer and more narrow form than would typically be used for a concert hall. However the aesthetic of a building that could open to the landscape is well suited to the casual summer atmosphere of the existing camp facilities.
