Grafenegg Pavilion, Austria : Architecture Information

Cloudtower - Open-air pavilion Grafenegg the next ENTERprise Location: Krems-Land, Lower Austria The stage seen from artificial hillock photo: Lukas Schaller The stage seen from the lawn in front of the castle photo: Philipp Horak, www.grafenegg.at This project for an open-air concert pavilion explores affinities between elements of the landscape garden such as contraction and expansion, enclosure and opening, object and landscape and one of the basic rules of acoustics - 'what you see is what you hear'. Entrance to the auditorium photo: Lukas Schaller The stage photo: Lukas Schaller Backstage photo: Lukas Schaller View from the south east photo: Lukas Schaller While stage and auditorium merge with the topography of the site, the stage roof is designed as an autonomous, sculptured object, suspended above the landscape on a level with the tree canopies and blending into the sky and trees.

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