SONOROUS

MUSEUM
Copenhagen

Janvi Cheenapalli
16041AA045
• Area: 3500 sqm
• CREO ARKITEKTER A/S, ADEPT and
NIRAS is behind concept and
realization of the museum design
that includes four delicately detailed
sound spaces as part of the
collection’s educational program.
• The Radio House, including the
National Music Museum and the four
sound spaces ’The Sonorous
Museum’, is refurbished in great
respect of the original building,
showing a classic approach that
preserves the original design
intentions, yet adding contemporary
life and modernity to it.
• The unique architecture of the Radio House, reflecting the spatial universe of Vilhelm Lauritzen, has been the main inspiration during the
refurbishment process.
• The four "interactive classrooms", where school groups can handle the instruments and test out their sound spectrum, are lined with different
types of wooden panel.
• The rooms – designed for STRINGS, BRASS, PERCUSSION and MIXED INSTRUMENTS – each have unique acoustics and pared-back aesthetics.
• Each of the four spaces are clad in wood
veneer, designed to meet and create the
optimal acoustic setting for a specific
instrumental group.
• From the vertical lamellae of the percussion
space, the seemingly vibrating cassettes for
strings to the graphical clarity of the brass
space, the four spaces stand out as both
contemporary modern and yet very classic in
their expression.
• Window into each of the rooms allow visitors
to watch and listen in on performances and
workshops.
• In the main exhibition area, small instruments
are displayed in frameless glass vitrines,
while large pieces including double basses and
pianos are raised on shallow plinths.
• The walls of the brass room are
chequered with panels of smooth wood
veneer and acoustic baffles, while rows
of holes are drilled in the stepped walls
of the strings room.
• Slim strips of timber run from ceiling to
floor in the percussion room and are
arranged to give the space soft
rounded edges.
• Wooden blocks form a performance platform at the back of
the orchestral space. They feature wooden panelling
perforated in triangular patterns, and are also used as
seating in a lecture room.
• Elements of the architectural design was incorporated in
the furniture, with the reception desk, bench seating and
storage cupboards all displaying triangular perforations.
• The exhibition design is build up around the guest’s physical
movement through musical history - a movement
communicated in a delicate balance between exhibited objects
and instruments, graphic illustrations and listening stations
interacting with the museum guest. The design alternates
between glass showcases making the instruments seemingly
float in the air and open tableaus showing larger instruments.
• The cabinets are interspersed with chunks of text, graphic
illustrations and listening stations that give an interactive
element to the displays.
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