The Threshold Experience

Audio&visual, Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, No Density, PLANE—SITE, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms

Accessibility, Acoustics, Active Building, Active Public Spaces, Aluminum skin, Architecture’s challenge, Architecture&art, Audiovisual, Boundaries, Connections, Cultural agitator, Culture, Design process, Empowering society, Exhibition, Fluid space, France, Glass, Glass panels, Iceland, Inspiration, Light, Multifunctional building, Multifunctional space, Music, Paris, Permanent change, Poland, Public buildings, Public Space, Reykjavík, Space & Sound, Technology, Wroclaw

The outside of a concert hall is seen, by most, more than its stage. They become city mascots, of course, but they should also act as an invitation. How can the public be encouraged to cross the threshold — from exterior to interior — without diminishing the creative works within? Whether newly constructed or housed within a historical building, a cultural space must be alive and active rather than a static token of a city’s culture.