Transforming A Gym to Concert Hall in Hungary by Dániel Baló + Dániel Eke + Zoltán Kalászi

Home » Theater Hall Design » Transforming A Gym to Concert Hall in Hungary by Dániel Baló + Dániel Eke + Zoltán Kalászi

Transforming of an established existing interior of a heritage architecture is a kind of project which needs more attention details rather than develop the whole structure from zero. The 10th century building, Benedictine Pannonhalma Archabbey is currently supplemented by the Benedictine High School. Since 2005, the school uses the boarding school’s gym for a three day spiritual exercise in the form of music, theater and art called The Pannonhalma Arcus Temporum Festival.

The 2012 event, the gym interior transformations are being worked by three Hungarian architects Dániel Baló, Dániel Eke and Zoltán Kalászi. They built a specifically fitted installation for the gym using two elements: the light bulbs to form a strict geometrical grid, and the parallel waving layers of the translucent textile which also designed to improve the gym’s acoustics.

As the fabric prevails over the beams and walls, the room’s boarders are blurred by the use of different outlines and the translucent, opalescent texture of the fabric’s layers. Two main functions, auditorium and stage are defined by using point lights which are hidden among the waving textile layers above the auditorium, and come into view above the stage thus bringing the musicians into focus. Photographs by Tamás Bujnovszky

Architects: Dániel Baló, Dániel Eke, Zoltán Kalászi
Electrical Engineering: István Kalászi
Construction team: Dániel Baló, Tamás Bene, Dániel Eke, Zoltán Kalászi, Mar Vicens Fuster, Balázs Máté, Nóra Szüts, Eszter Takács

Floor Area: 200 sqm
Material: Polypropylene (17 gram/sqm non-woven fabric)
Operational Date: 24th – 26th of August, 2012
Budget: 1160 €

Related items

• Minimalist Low Profile House Design in Phoenix, Arizona – Meadowbrook House by Atherton | Keener
• Modern Zagreb Dance Center Design by 3LHD Architects
• Theatre and Arts Centre De Kunstlinie in Almere by SANAA Architect
• Chamber Music Hall for Manchester International Festival by Zaha Hadid Architects
• Casa Adpropeixe Modern House Design by Carlos Castanheira & Clara Bastai Architects

Woodworking is a piece of cake …

With tons of blueprints (over 16,000!) for different furniture designs and outdoor woodwork projectsyou can have a great insight into how to build different things with wood. In it, they tell you about wood, how to design projects, the detailed photographs, patterns, blueprints, materials list and step by step instructions on how to put build them.

The second part shows you the different tools and how to use them, and a complete guide to woodwork carpentry. And the color photographs and drawings are beautiful and show a lot of detail.